Staff information
Amount of staff
The required amount of staff varies for each user group, and can occasionally change. Here is how many users can be staff at a time for each user group:
Bureaucrats = 2-3
Administrators = 0
Content Moderators = 1
Discussions Moderators = 0
Rollbacks = 0
Wiki Representatives = 1
Rollback roles
Rollbacks can undo edits in one click. Regularly, undoing an edit will take multiple clicks. But with a rollback, it will automatically undo a recent user's edits as a single action. No custom edit summary can be given during this process.
Discussions moderator roles
Discussions moderators are users who monitor the discussions to make sure the rules are being followed. Here are some of their main user rights:
- Removing/restoring messages on message walls.
- Deleting blog posts.
- Editing and deleting article comments.
- Deleting, restoring, and locking discussions posts and replies.
- Locking page comment sections.
Content moderator roles
Content moderators are trusted to remove any profanity, spam, or anything else harmful towards Control Wiki, and are trusted to delete pages that don't follow the Control Wiki rules. Their main user rights are:
- Editing fully protected pages.
- Deleting or undeleting pages or files.
- Editing protected files.
- Renaming files.
- Protecting/unprotecting pages.
Content moderators also have the rights of rollbacks and some rights of discussions moderators.
Administrator roles
Administrators are trusted users who are in charge of administrating the wiki. Their main user rights are:
- Having access to edit wiki code.
- Blocking/unblocking users and their user IDs.
- Having the ability to promote users to discussions moderator.
Administrators also have all the user rights of content moderators and discussions moderators.
Bureaucrat roles
Bureaucrat rights are the highest rights you can get on Control Wiki. Bureaucrats have all the user rights of an administrator with the addition of being able to promote users to rollbacks, discussions moderators, content moderators, administrators, and bureaucrats.
In most circumstances, the way bureaucrats are selected is when a bureaucrat decides to step down, they pick one of the administrators to replace them. If however the bureaucrat who is leaving either didn't pick a successor or was demoted, the other bureaucrats would decide who would replace them instead.
Difference between Content and Discussions Administrators/Bureaucrats
The difference between the status of being a content administrator and a discussions administrator is usually if the admin was promoted to admin from being a content moderator, they would be considered a content administrator as they were promoted from a content role, and if they were promoted from being a discussions moderator, they would be considered a discussions administrator as they were promoted from a discussions role. If a user had both discussions and content moderator rights, they would be considered both a discussions and content administrator.
Whichever status a bureaucrat had as admin when they were promoted would be the same, except it would be for bureaucrats (ex: content bureaucrat, discussions bureaucrat).
The different status helps determine their staff page activity status as well as their demotion rules. With the staff page activity status, if a user has both a discussions and content status, their activity on the page does by their content status. However, if an admin wants to, they can switch their status roles around.
If an administrator goes 60 days without editing and has the content role, they will lose it, and if an admin goes 60 days without posting with the discussions role, they will lose their discussions status.