Administrators

Administrators are users who have been given the ability to do restricted actions, such as deleting or protecting pages. They act in the wiki's best interest and are responsible for upholding local wiki policies as well as the Terms of Service.

On wiki.gg, we distinguish three distinct administrator user groups: Administrator (sysop), Interface administrator, and Permissions administrator (equivalent with MediaWiki's default "bureaucrat" group).

What each group can do

Permissions administrator

Permissions administrators can grant and remove most user groups, so you don't want to give this role out widely. Most wikis will have only one permissions administrator (other than wiki.gg staff), and very few wikis should have more than 2 or 3.

(Note: Permissions administrators cannot themselves give out or revoke Permissions administrator)

Interface administrator

Interface administrators can edit pages in the MediaWiki namespace. In particular this includes CSS (site styles) and JS (site scripts). This role should be granted to the person or people who will be doing your theme, and also to anyone who is writing a substantial amount of code for the wiki. Regular moderators do not need this role. Interface administrators should be highly trusted.

Administrators

Administrators have several rights, including:

• Editing protected pages (such as the main page, the site logo, favicon, etc)
• Deleting pages
• Blocking and unblocking users
• Editing the AbuseFilter settings
• Creating, recreating, and deleting Cargo tables

For a full list, see Special:ListGroupRights

You can give Administrator privileges to several people, anyone who will find it useful. However, not everyone will require this permission, and if you have a large team you may want to give it out as needed.

How to get admin

• If your wiki is currently in onboarding please request rights in your wiki's Discord channel! If you are the wiki creator we will grant you Permissions Admin, otherwise the wiki creator can grant you rights.
• If your wiki has active administrators, please contact them! They can either send us a ticket or promote you themselves, depending on whether they have the Permissions Administrator group. In this case, DO NOT SEND US A TICKET YOURSELF.
• If your wiki does NOT have any active administrators, you can request to adopt it. Please make several positive contributions on the wiki first, and then send us a ticket requesting your own rights.

Note: It's very important in the last two cases that whoever sends the ticket uses their wiki account email as the email for the support ticket, otherwise we can't confirm your identity in our ticket portal!

How to edit someone else's rights (or your own)

If you have Permissions Administrator, you can go to Special:UserRights and then type in the user's wiki username. This field is case-sensitive. You can also visit the user's contributions or user page and then click "Change user groups" under "Tools" in the sidebar.