

There are several reasons why a particular page might be protected. Protecting and unprotecting pages, and editing protected pages 'Protecting' a page prevents normal users from editing the page at all.
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There are several extra features available to them, see the full list of permissions. What can an Administrator or Wiki Guardian do? You can find out who the Wiki Guardians are on this wiki here, and choosing Wiki Guardian from the drop-down list. You can find out who the Administrators are on this wiki here, and choosing Administrators from the drop-down list. Who are the Administrators and Wiki Guardians?

The extra powers of an Administrator or Wiki Guardian are intended for use in settling disputes, major maintenance issues, and preventing repeated vandalism. Everyone can get involved in editing pages and even undertaking drastic reorganization of the wiki. Most of their role should go largely unnoticed by the normal users of a wiki community. Here at Gamepedia, we have another group of wiki administrators known as Wiki Guardians. Members of this user group can edit semi-protected pages, edit sprites, skip CAPTCHA when adding external links to pages, move pages without leaving a redirection, and aren't affected by IP-based rate limits.īy default, MediaWiki provides extra functionality to a group of trusted users called Administrators (historically known as 'sysops', and still referred to by that name in the codebase). Upon registering, users will also be added to the implicit autoconfirmed user group. View the spam blacklist log (spamblacklistlog).Override files on the shared media repository locally (reupload-shared).Move root user pages (move-rootuserpages).Move pages with their subpages (move-subpages).Move category pages (move-categorypages).May claim the wiki to become a wiki guardian (claim_wiki).Edit your own user JavaScript files that are redirects (editmyuserjsredirect).Edit your own user JSON files (editmyuserjson).Edit the content model of a page (editcontentmodel).Edit multiple pages using a spreadsheet (multipageedit).Create new "classes" of pages (createclass).Bypass automatic blocks of Tor exit nodes (torunblocked).Apply tags along with one's changes (applychangetags).Add and remove arbitrary tags on individual revisions and log entries (changetags).The following is a complete list of registered user rights: These include moving pages and uploading files. Registered users have several rights which users who are not logged into an account do not have. View your own watchlist (viewmywatchlist).email address, real name) (viewmyprivateinfo) View report of used special tags (tagsreport).View "Edit" tab for pages editable by form (viewedittab).Edit your own watchlist (note that some actions will still add pages even without this right) (editmywatchlist).Edit your own user JavaScript files (editmyuserjs).Edit your own user CSS files (editmyusercss).email address, real name) (editmyprivateinfo) Edit your own preferences (editmyoptions).Create pages (which are not discussion pages) (createpage).Create new user accounts (createaccount).

This is the list of rights anyone browsing or editing a Gamepedia wiki has, whether or not they are logged in:
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In practice, there are malicious editors, and so MediaWiki software does offer many options related to permissions. You don't need permission to edit, and you are encouraged to "be bold", go forth and edit!

By making it very simple to monitor edits or changes and revert (or undo) them to retrieve an older version of a page, a wiki doesn't need to be very restrictive at all. This is only possible because wikis offer a kind of "soft security". This means anyone can edit pages often without even having an account. Wikis are typically set up to be freely and openly edited.
