Project:Tools: Difference between revisions

Any editor may request access to any tool by going to the talk page of [[Special:ListUsers/bureaucrat|any bureaucrat]]. Bureaucrats maintain discretion over the assignment and revocation of tools, though they generally will want to see a demonstrated need for them and a base-line level of competence in editing the project.

An '''administrator''' is a user with the technical ability to block, delete (pages, files, and their history), and protect. They act as the custodians of the project, enforcing policies and using other elevated editing-access to contribute in different ways.

A '''bureaucrat''' is a user with the technical ability to alter the user groups and accounts of editors. They can assign all user groups (including the bureaucrat group), edit account passwords, see and edit account email addresses, edit the real name of accounts, merge accounts together, and rename accounts. Bureaucrats are prohibited from giving editors check user or suppressor without the [[Project:Site operator|site operator]]'s consent due to the sensitive information that such tools grant access to.

A '''check user''' has the technical ability to view all IP addresses associated with a particular account, or vice versa, so as to investigate the potential abuse of multiple accounts or IP addresses.

A '''suppressor''' has the technical ability to perform an elevated form of page history deletion which makes it so the selected content cannot be viewed by even Online Communipedia administrators. This is generally reserved for personally identifiable information or other extreme cases.