Administration Guidelines

Introduction
The Hidden City: Mystery of Shadows wiki  has two different sections, one being the content article pages with the game related information and the second section being user areas (Discussions, Walls, etc.). Fandom (the host) has given wikis tools and information to help manage their communities with some of these tools being user roles.

These roles are Administrators (Admins), several kinds of Moderators, and Bureaucrats. Users who have these roles have certain privileges that the average user does not.

Fandom has given definitions as to what these roles mean but they don't tell communities how to choose them nor have they told users in these roles what to do for any situation that might come up. Fandom encourages the community to come up with it's own set of guidelines or polices as they grow larger (as the larger you grow the more this kind of thing is needed). Hidden City Wiki users with these roles are often referred to as the "Wiki Team" (Admin and Moderators) and we aim to help the community as it grows larger. Sometimes disagreements happen and one of us has to step in but we strive to be as fair as possible and assume good faith of other editors/contributors.

The next section coming up will describe the user roles as they are described by Fandom, these just explain basic job responsibilities and capabilities.

User Roles as described by Fandom
These descriptions are copied from Fandom's Help:User rights. These are to provide the understanding of the different user roles used here on this wiki.

Administrators
Administrators (also known as "admins" or "sysops") are trusted users who are generally chosen by the community and also have access to the following rights: For more details, see the Help:Administrators' how-to guide.
 * All privileges from both the Content Moderator and Discussions Moderator groups.
 * Block users from editing and other actions.
 * Grant and revoke both the Chat Moderator and Discussions Moderator rights.
 * Edit the community's skin and format.
 * Edit white-listed MediaWiki pages.

Being an administrator makes the tag "ADMIN" appear next to a user's name on their profile, unless changed on MediaWiki:User-identity-box-group-sysop.

Bureaucrats
Bureaucrats have the ability to manipulate user rights, as well as block and unblock users, so this right is generally used in addition to the administrator group.

They have the ability to promote and revoke rollback, Content Moderator, and administrator rights as well as appointing new bureaucrats. While they cannot directly remove another user's bureaucrat status, they can remove their own. Bureaucrats also have the ability to remove a user's bot status in case the bot is malfunctioning, but bot flag requests are handled by staff after being approved (by either a bureaucrat or the community).

Having this status causes the tag "BUREAUCRAT" to appear next to user's username on their profile, unless changed on MediaWiki:User-identity-box-group-bureaucrat.

The bureaucrat status can only be removed by Fandom Staff or by the bureaucrat themselves.

Content Moderators
Content Moderators are users who have additional tools available to moderate specific parts of the community. These tools are: Having this status causes the tag "CONTENT MODERATOR" to appear next to user's username in their profile, unless changed on MediaWiki:User-identity-box-group-content-moderator.
 * Editing and moving fully protected pages
 * Deleting and undeleting pages and files
 * Editing and moving protected files
 * Rollback
 * Re-upload files
 * Protecting and unprotecting pages
 * Patrolling pages if the community has the RecentChanges patrol feature enabled
 * Deleting article comments
 * Admins enjoy all the privileges of content moderators, so admins do not need to be put in to that group in addition to being an admin.