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Administrators, or sysops, are users who have access to technical features that help with maintenance. Those include protecting and deleting pages, blocking other editors, and undoing these actions as well. The FFXIclopedia looks to administrators to perform essential housekeeping chores that require the extra access administrators are entrusted with. The following are a list of features that are available to Administrators, depending on the access group, in order of hierarchy:

Bureaucrat

Block and unblock

  • Blocking accounts is done in rare instances and typically because of vandalism or spam.

Checkuser

  • The Checkuser function allows an administrator with checkuser permissions to check which IPs are used by a given username, and which usernames are used by a given IP, without having to run queries directly against the database by hand.

Deletion and undeletion

  • Watching the Articles for deletion debates and carrying out the consensus of the community on keeping or deleting these articles, keeping an eye on new and changed articles to swiftly delete obvious vandalism, and meeting user requests for help that require administrative access.
  • For information and guidelines, see FFXIclopedia:Guide to Deletion. To suggest a page for deletion follow the FFXIclopedia:Guide to Deletion. Follow this guide to challenge a finalized decision to delete a page as well.

Moving

  • Administrators have a fast mechanism to allow them to move articles to new pages or to an existing page. The old page then becomes a redirect to the new page to preserve broken links, and are sometimes kept for search purposes, depending on the situation.

Protected pages

  • There are very few protected pages in the FFXIclopedia. Most notable is the Main Page. You can suggest changes to these pages on their respective talk pages. For more information, please see FFXIclopedia:Article Protection.

Reverting

  • Administrators have a faster, automated reversion tool to help them revert vandalism. This rollback feature reverts all edits by the most recent user to the user before them. Reverted edits are automatically patrolled.

Patrolling

  • Patrolling edits is a way to verify that it is a good edit, and to collaborate on filtering spam and vandalism. This feature inspired the name for the group Patrollers as users who are known to make edits that help make FFXIclopedia the number one Final Fantasy XI resource that it is today.

Other access types

In addition to administrators, there are Junior Administrators and Patrollers.

Junior Administrators have many, but not all, of the above rights. These rights include all of the above with the exception of Block/Unblock and Checkuser. Junior Administrators cannot edit in the MediaWiki Namespace. Where rights are granted to the Junior Administrators they are granted in full.

Patrollers are a third tier of experienced users who have access to technical features that help with maintenance. Those include protecting and unprotecting pages, monitoring the Recent Changes log for adverse edits, and undoing these actions as well. The FFXIclopedia looks to patrollers to perform essential housekeeping chores that make the job of Administrators a little easier.

Bots are a usergroup that are primarily used for automated editing, they by default have their edits hidden from recent changes log, however this feature is not currently utilized within the FFXIclopedia. It is possible for Administrators to "botify" specific revisions, effectively hiding it from the log. This would primarily be used to hide vandalism.

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