- For a complete list of users by access level, see Special:Listusers.
- For a complete list of what each Group can do, see Special:ListGroupRights.
User access levels[]
Founder[]
The "founder" of a wiki is the person who created it, and who has administrator access automatically.
This wiki was created on 2007-11-12 by Zig-Zag, who did not make any recorded edits.
The first active admin was S.I.N.N., who adopted this wiki on 2008-04-12. You can view S.I.N.N.'s contributions by clicking this link.
Rollback[]
Rollback rights allow undoing all edits by a user in one click, which speeds up vandalism removal. These rights are given to any regular editor who undoes vandalism.
- See Special:ListUsers/rollback for a list of users with rollback rights.
Rollback rights have been given to many other users in the past, but is removed if those users become inactive.
Content Moderator[]
A content moderator is a "admin-lite" role, that gives most administrator rights:
- Rollback
- Deleting and undeleting pages
- Protecting and unprotecting pages
- Editing and moving fully protected pages
Administrator[]
Administrators, also known as Admins or Sysops have the same rights as Content Moderators, as well as:
- Blocking users
- Editing the community's skin and format.
- Editing whitelisted MediaWiki pages.
- See Special:ListUsers/sysop for a list of users with admin rights.
Responsibilities[]
A wiki does not need an admin in order to function.
There are many ways to be a good contributor without being an admin.
Administration[]
The primary responsibility of an Administrator is to perform the Administrative functions. Administrative tasks can only be performed by Administrators. Administrators who do not perform Administrative tasks should not be Administrators.
- Block vandals, as per the block policy
- Delete pages marked for deletion (Also available for Content Moderators)
- Lock excessively vandalised pages (Also available for Content Moderators)
Admins are also the only users who can edit MediaWiki pages and update the wiki's skin, and should fix problems and make improvements upon the request of other users.
Maintenance[]
These tasks can be performed by all users, but all admins and users considered for admin rights are expected to:
- Watch Special:RecentChanges and inspect recent edits for vandalism
- Clean up edits by new users, and direct new users to relevant help pages
- Regularly check various Special:SpecialPages for issues, especially Category:Maintenance.
Users who do not do these things are unlikely to become admins.
- See also: Wookieepedia:Administrators
What admins are not[]
- See Wookieepedia:What adminship is not for a great list.
While admins can be seen as the caretakers of a wiki, cleaning up vandalism, ensuring things run smoothly and fixing problems which require admin rights, they are not the owners of the wiki, and it is not their sole responsibility to improve the wiki.
- Admins should not be contacted directly with questions about the games
- Questions belong as forum posts, so they can be easily found and referenced by everyone.
- Admins regularly check discussion areas, and will see questions there, so there is no need to notify them of discussions.
- Articles tagged for Cleanup can be edited and reworded by anyone.
- Top-of-article notices are there to inform all editors of how to improve each article.
- Anyone can make a post in Category:Game News, it is not an administrative task.
- Everyone may remove inaccurate information. If you see something wrong, it's your responsibility to fix it.
- It is also not the responsibility of administrators to find references for information that other users have added.
Becoming an admin[]
On the Saints Row Wiki, there is no "application process" for becoming an administrator.
- Anyone who needs access to admin tools may be given admin rights.
- Regular editors who undo vandalism are granted Rollback rights, which enables faster vandalism reversal. This is usually the first step to becoming an admin.
- There is no minimum requirement for length of time editing, or number of edits, what matters is whether a user has proven themselves to be a good contributor based on the quality of edits, not the quantity.
- Adminship is not a reward and it is not a honorary title, administrators are expected to remain active, and regularly perform admin-related tasks listed in the Responsibilities section.
- Admins are expected to remain neutral in any disagreements and refrain from any insults, even when dealing with vandals
- Disqualifications
- Users who do not need admin tools have no reason to be admins.
- Users who are not regular editors are unlikely to become admins.
- Users with a history of ignoring communication are unlikely to become admins.
- Users with a history of poor quality or irresponsible edits are unlikely to become admins.
- Users with a history of drama/insults or otherwise poor interactions with other users are unlikely to become admins.
User access level history[]
- Chat Moderators
- Between 2011-08-17 and 2016-06-19, 47 users were given chat moderator rights, with the majority of them being eventually removed due to inactivity.
- These 47 users include 9 who eventually became admins.
- Rollback
- Between 2011-05-01 and 2015-05-08, 21 users were given rollback rights, with the majority of them being eventually removed due to inactivity.
- These 21 users includes 4 who eventually became admins.
- Thread Moderator
- In 2015, the Thread Moderator role was created, which is basically a forum admin role.
- Between 2015-01-30 and 2015-04-27, 3 users volunteered for this role.
- In 2016, threaded forums were converted to Wiki-style forums, and the role became redundant.
- Admins
- There have been a total of 17 active admins.
- 10 first had Chat Moderators or Rollback rights.
- 452 has promoted 11 administrators over 11 years.
UserID | First edit | Admin + | Last edit | Admin - | Edits before |
Notes |
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419338 | 2008-04-14 | 2008-04-13 | 2008-04-16 | 2013-06-12 | 0 | Adopted, stayed for 2 days. |
983063 | 2008-09-29 | 2009-02-27 | 2009-10-14 | 2012-01-01 | 235 |
|
1153722 | 2008-12-31 | 2009-10-01 | 2011-06-13 | 2012-01-01 | 1034 |
|
1288485 | 2009-09-13 | 2010-08-16 | 2010-08-17 | 2011-08-17 | 414 | Made homophobic and otherwise inappropriate comments. |
1638309 | 2010-07-20 | 2010-08-26 | 2011-04-12 | 2011-02-24 | 433 | Demoted for poor behaviour
|
5473581 | 2011-02-03 | 2011-04-09 | 2022-05-10 | 2022-05-10 | 2963 |
|
1382149 | 2011-06-11 | 2011-09-14 | 2013-10-04 | 2014-10-14 | 1403 | Promoted at high-traffic period when admins were needed.
|
5448528 | 2012-09-22 | 2013-04-17 | 2015-08-18 | 2016-08-18 | 1400 | Promoted due to being an established user who needed access to admin tools.
|
4682926 | 2012-01-07 | 2013-08-08 | 2014-03-02 | 2014-08-01 | 346 | Promoted at high-traffic period when admins were needed.
|
4746375 | 2012-01-10 | 2013-08-08 | 2021-09-18 | 2017-12-15 | 578 | Promoted at high-traffic period when admins were needed.
|
5135811 | 2013-04-21 | 2013-08-08 | 2015-01-09 | 2013-11-27 | 453 | Promoted at high-traffic period when admins were needed.
|
14581258 | 2013-08-05 | 2013-09-28 | 2014-02-22 | 2013-11-27 | 103 | Promoted at high-traffic period when admins were needed.
|
24150609 | 2013-11-09 | 2013-11-27 | 2014-02-09 | 2015-02-12 | 472 | Promoted at high-traffic period when admins were needed.
|
4113038 | 2012-10-07 | 2014-01-03 | 2014-09-26 | 2014-01-26 | 636 | Promoted at high-traffic period when admins were needed.
|
4896172 | 2013-08-27 | 2015-08-20 | 2016-01-28 | 18 | Temporary admin rights for established user who needed access to admin tools | |
3123176 | 2011-05-14 | 2017-05-16 | 2017-05-18 | 2017-05-18 | 193 | Trial admin rights for long-term good contributor.
|
24887354 | 2014-05-01 | 2021-09-08 | 2021-10-21 | 196 | Temporary admin rights during high vandalism period. |
(Edits before becoming admin column is approximate, and may not include deleted contributions.)