Vampire Academy Series Wiki:User Rights Requests

User Rights Requests is a page that informs users about different user rights on the wiki and what they need to do in order to be promoted.

Administrators and moderators are the local moderation team. In order to become one, you must be at least 13 or 16 years old or older, as per the terms of use. Please remember that promotions are a privilege, not a right.

Note: Thread Moderators are excluded from this as discussions are not enabled on this wiki.

Roles on this wiki

• Rollback
• Content Moderator
• Administrator
• Bureaucrat

What does each role do?

Descriptions are pulled from here.

Rollback

• Rollback recent edits made by a user who edited a particular page.
• Can remove rollback group from their own account.

Content Moderator

• Change protection settings and edit cascade-protected pages.
• Delete/Undelete pages, blogs, interactive maps, comments left on blogs or articles, messages on message walls.
• Edit interactive maps, protected pages, content models, messages on message walls.
• Edits are automatically marked as patrolled.
• Manage interactive map marker reports.
• Mark other's edits as patrolled.
• Rollback recent edits made by a user who edited a particular page.
• View deleted history entries, without their associated text, text and changes between deleted revisions.
• Can remove content moderator group from their own account.

Administrator

• Access wiki analytics, Admin Dashboard, and Theme Designer
• Add and remove arbitrary tags on individual revisions and log entries.
• Apply tags along with one's changes
• Can classify multiple templates at once.
• Block other users from editing.
• Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks.
• Change protection settings and edit cascade-protected pages.
• Create wiki-wide announcements
• Delete/Undelete pages, blogs, interactive maps, comments left on blogs or articles, messages on message walls.
• Edit blog articles, protected pages, restricted form fields, sitewide CSS and JSON, the content model of a page, the user interface.
• Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled.
• Import pages from a file upload and pages from other wikis.
• Manage marker reports.
• Mark others' edits as patrolled.
• Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits.
• Merge the history of pages.
• Move blog articles, category pages, files, interactive maps, pages and their subages (if they have one), root user pages.
• Not be affected by IP-based rate limits.
• Override files on the shared media repository locally.
• Override the disallowed titles or usernames list.
• Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA.
• Protect blog articles.
• Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page.
• Search deleted pages.
• Unblock oneself.
• Use higher limits in API queries.
• View a list of unwatched pages, deleted history entries without their associated text, deleted text and changes between deleted revisions, disallowed title list log
• Disable comments on articles
• Add groups: threadmoderator and rollback
• Remove groups: threadmoderator and rollback
• Remove group from own account

Bureaucrat

• Block other users from editing
• Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range block
• Unblock oneself
• Add groups: content-moderator, rollback, administrators and bureaucrats
• Remove groups: content-moderator, rollback, administrators, and Bots
• Remove group from own account

Who is not eligible

• Users who have been warned/blocked several times for repeated behavior (spamming, causing drama, being rude to others, etc.) and have shown no signs of improvement.
• Users who have been demoted for abusing their role and have shown no signs of improvement.
• Ban evaders
• Users with inappropriate usernames/bios

Ways to be promoted

Bureaucrat/User reaches out

If the community is not super active and a bureaucrat needs help for whatever reason, they may reach out and offer you a promotion. The bureaucrat may grant you temporary rights, and if after the 30-day trial you still want to have that role, you can reach out to the bureaucrat and request permanent rights. If that bureaucrat approves the request, your rights will become permanent.

If a user meets the requirements of a role and the wiki isn't active, that user can ask to be promoted by a bureaucrat. The bureaucrat may grant you temporary rights, and if after the 30-day trial you still want to have that role, you can reach out to the bureaucrat and request permanent rights. If that bureaucrat approves the request, your rights will become permanent.

Nomination Request

If the wiki needs a new moderator, and the admin team deems it necessary, nominations will be set up. After a week, whoever has the most votes may be approved by the admin team based on the general requirements set up on the wiki. The community will be allowed to discuss the recommendation via blogs, discussions (if it is enabled), a talk page, or another method that fits your community, as long as it is easy to find.

Rules for nomination

• Any user can recommend another user.
  • For the process to be fair, you can't ask your friends on other wikis to come to this wiki to nominate you if your friends are not already active on this wiki.
• Users who have been previously blocked may be automatically rejected for consideration.
• The user nominated has to fulfill, or be close to fulfilling the requirements.
• Don't only oppose/support someone because you do/don't like them. You should only support/oppose someone based on their skills and behavior in the community. Be respectful.
• When nominating someone, use a sentence like, "I nominate [insert username] because [reason]."

Tie?

In the event that several users (more than two) receive the same amount of votes, meaning that there are more elected users than there are needed positions, the admin team will discuss who is the better candidate and post the results.

Requirements for

For the editing requirements, if you edit-farm (spam repetitive / unhelpful edits to artificially inflate your edit count), you may become ineligible for all positions.

Rollback

• Read and follow all of the rules and policies.
• You must be active on the wiki for 1 month or more to be eligible.
• You must have at least 500 edits.
• Knowledge of how pages are formatted.

Content Moderator

• Read and follow all of the rules and policies.
• You must be active on the wiki for 3 months or more to be eligible.
• You must have at least 2000+ edits.
• Knowledge of how pages are formatted.
• Some experience using source mode.

Thread Moderator

Discussions are not enabled on this wiki, so users are not able to become discussion moderators.

Administrator

• Read and follow all of the rules and policies.
• Must not have been blocked on this wiki for repeated behavior.
• You must be active on the wiki for 6 months or more to be eligible.
• Assisted users who asked for help and displayed politeness to others.
• You must have at least 4000+ edits.
• Knowledge of how pages are formatted.
• Experience using source mode.

Bureaucrat

• This role can only be applied for if the user already has admin rights
• Same requirements as Administrator
• Must be a very trusted user

Demotions / Inactivity

If a user abuses their role or breaks the wiki's rules and policies, they will be demoted. If there isn't an active admin or bureaucrat to demote the user (or if the user is an admin or bureaucrat), contact Fandom support and ask the user be demoted with proof of abuse via links.

If a bureaucrat is going to become inactive, they must pick an administrator to promote to bureaucrat. Bureaucrats must remember that they have to pick someone that they have a lot of trust in, as once the admin they pick is promoted, that admin (and fandom staff) will be the only ones able to remove the bureaucrat right from themselves. If there are no other admins on the wiki and the bureaucrat leaves without promoting someone, any user can adopt the wiki as long as they meet the adoption requirements.

If a mod member displays prolonged inactivity without notice, they may be stripped of their role. Prolonged inactivity is about a month long. If they resume their edits/activity, they can request to have their positions back.