The Karate Kid Wiki:Administrators

Every wiki in Fandom is overseen by their own administrations, and that includes the Karate Kid Wiki. The administration consists of four types of users, sorted in descending order from left to right:

Bureaucrats

• Bureaucrats have access to privileges from the administrator, discussions moderator, content moderator, and rollback groups.
• Only 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.

Administrators

• Administrators (also known as "admins" or "sysops (short for system-operators)") are trusted users who are generally chosen by the community and also have access to the following rights:
  • All privileges from the discussions moderator and content moderator groups.
  • Block users who are vandalizing the wiki from editing and other actions.
  • Grant and revoke discussions moderator rights.
  • Edit the community's skin and format.
  • Edit white-listed MediaWiki pages.

Content moderators

• Content moderators are users who have additional tools available to moderate specific parts of the community. These tools are:
  • Deleting and moving protected pages
  • Deleting and moving files
  • Undeleting pages and files
  • Rollback
  • Re-upload files
  • Protecting and unprotecting pages

Discussions moderators

• Discussions moderators are users who have additional tools available to moderate specific parts of the community. These tools are:
  • Editing threads(posts, messages, comments) made by any user
  • Locking and unlocking threads
  • Deleting and restoring threads
  • Viewing insights
  • Viewing and managing reports

Rollbacks

• Anyone can revert vandalism and bad-faith edits, but it takes a couple of clicks in the page history to get it done. The "rollback" permission allows a user to undo bad edits with one click: by using the rollback link on diff pages, the user's contributions page, or the list of recent changes. The edit summary for a rollback edit is (Reverted edits by X (talk) to last version by Y).
• Content moderators and admins have this permission by default. It can also be granted to other users by adding them to the rollback group.

Current administration

The status of each member is updated every month.

Legend

Becoming an Administrator

For you to become an administrator, someone with bureaucrat access must make you one, which includes FANDOM Staff.

Bureaucrats usually look for trusted users to do show the dedication, drive and abilities on maintaining and contributing to a wiki. These users must have hundreds if not thousands of contributions, but quality matters more than quantity. They must establish themselves as long-standing members who can respectfully engage with users and admins.

Most of the time, rights are earned, not simply asked and especially not demanded. Bureaucrats will determine when and who to upgrade to adminship.

If there are no active bureaucrats or administrators, create a Discussions page to determine a community consensus. Once a community decision has been reached (or if there is no active community to debate the decision), please leave a message at the wiki adoption requests page and FANDOM Staff can provide the rights (if the eligibility requirements are met).

What Can't the Administrative Team Do?

Administrators should not abuse their administrator powers; for example, blocking users over petty excuses or edits made in good faith. Administrators on this wiki aren't allowed to bully or intimidate other users by any means. Administrator powers should be used to help keep the wiki clear of vandalism, spam, and users who make malicious edits, but not for simple disagreements between users acting in. Ideally an admin shouldn't be considered "in charge". The ideal admin is just someone who is trusted to have a few extra buttons and to use them for the benefit of the FANDOM community. An administrator reflects the three values of the wiki, Fairness, Equality, Inclusivity.

Please use Special:Contact to contact FANDOM staff if problems arise in a community that the current administrative team are not solving or are causing.

Removal of Rights

Voted into policy on November 21, 2023.

If it is believed that privileges are being abused, misused, or unused by an administrator, the following process should be applied.

1. Communicate with them. Try to talk it out and come to an agreement.
2. If attempts at communication fail, bring this to the attention of another administrator and/or bureaucrat to mediate. In absence thereof, reach out to the assigned Wiki Representative or Fandom Staff.
3. Removal of admin rights will be considered by the active team members. If a decision to remove admin rights is taken, a reasoning with must be provided in order to satisfy a standard of accountability. One or more of the following must be shown:

• Sustained, deliberate misuse of the privileges given
• Sustained failure to follow the code of conduct in their entirety
• Sustained failure to follow the conduct guidelines outlined further above
• Sustained failure to use their administrative duties in a way that benefits the community

Administrators should remain active to assist the wiki. In cases of prolonged inactivity, removal of user rights may be considered by an the active team members based on the needs of the community. Admins are expected to have an activity level of 10 or more edits per month and have exercised their admin privileges at least once in that time frame. If an admin is inactive for longer than six months without a reasonable explanation, they automatically forfeit their right to be an admin.