Age of Empires Series Wiki:User rights

Different users have access to different features of the Age of Empires Series Wiki. While anyone can do most things on the site, including reading and editing, users who possess additional user rights have access to a few additional technical functions and tools which allow them to perform maintenance tasks and revert vandalism with greater ease. Users with rights, while being trusted members of the community, are not any better or more important than anyone else. They do not have an extra vote, or veto power, and their votes are weighted equally with that of users that do not have added rights. Any member of the community is eligible to apply for these rights; read the sections on each of the different groups below for more information.

Hierarchy
Hierarchy Bureaucrat Sysop Moderator Rollback Chat Moderator Users with additional rights have access to features of the wiki which are not available to others. A guide for requesting these rights can be found at Age of Empires Wiki:Requests for Permissions.

Registered users
Users who have created an account and logged in can:
 * Customize the appearance and features of the community by setting their preferences.
 * Upload an image, video or other file.
 * Add pages to their watchlist, which can be used to track edits to a particular page.
 * Maintain a user profile.
 * Remove advertisements from all pages (except for the main page of each community).

Autoconfirmed users
Registered users who have been with Fandom for at least 4 days also have access to the following tools:
 * They no longer have to go through a captcha when inserting an external link into a page, blanking a page or creating a new account.
 * They can edit semi-protected pages.

Powerusers
This is not an actual user right, but more of an internal status flag used by Fandom. In most cases, it doesn't grant any extra abilities or rights. It also cannot be used to filter users via Special:ListUsers.

Bots
A "bot" is any automated process, program, or script that makes it easier for a user to make tedious or repetitive edits and actions on a community. When a bot is running in quick succession, the recent changes log can sometimes be overtaken, making it harder to spot more substantial edits by regular users. Giving an account a "bot flag" will hide these edits from the recent changes list (although any editor can still choose to see them by clicking "Show bots").

On Fandom, a user who wishes to use a bot should set up a separate account for it, then talk with other community members to ask whether they approve of the creation of a bot. After discussing it with the community, the bot owner or admin can request the bot be flagged.

Chat moderators
Chat moderators are another group of users on the wiki, which are signified by a star next to their name in chat. Their main concern is keeping the peace in chat. They are able to kick and ban people from the chat.
 * List of Chat Moderators

Rollback Editors

 * Users with rollback rights have the ability to quickly revert all edits by one user on one page, with a single click of a button.
 * Rollback can be requested on any administrator's talk page, or on the Requests for Permissions page.
 * List of Rollback Editors

Discussions Moderators
Discussions Moderators are users who have additional tools available to manage conversations in various features across the community where users are having social discussions. These tools are:
 * Do everything that a Chat Moderator can do.
 * Removing and restoring threads and replies from any user.
 * Closing and reopening threads.
 * In the Forum feature specifically, moderators also have the ability to manage Forum boards, move threads from one board to another, and highlight and un-highlight threads.
 * Deleting offensive blog comments.
 * The ability to delete, edit or toggle an article comment.
 * Moderating the Discussions feature, if enabled.
 * Having this status causes "DISCUSSIONS MODERATOR" to appear next to the username on the user's userpage, unless changed on MediaWiki:User-identity-box-group-threadmoderator.
 * List of Discussion Moderators

Content Moderators
Content Moderators are users who moderate the wiki, deal with vandals and trolls, and are able to delete vandalism and block those who cause it. Moderators are able to:
 * Do everything a rollback editor can do.
 * Moving protected pages and files.
 * Deleting and restoring pages, page histories, and uploaded files.
 * View deleted pages and comments.
 * Protecting and unprotecting pages.
 * Edit pages which are otherwise protected from editing.
 * Patrol pages if the community has the RecentChanges patrol feature enabled.
 * Having this status causes "CONTENT MODERATOR" to appear next to the username on the user's userpage, unless changed on MediaWiki:User-identity-box-group-content-moderator.
 * List of Content Moderators

Administrators
Administrators are trusted users who have access to a wide variety of tools and features, generally for general maintenance and dealing with vandals. Administrators are split into two different categories, bureaucrats and sysops. While both have access to basic administrator tools, bureaucrats have an additional ability to promote different users. In many wikis, it is common to have more sysops than bureaucrats. The following is a list of additional abilities administrators have in their disposal.

Sysop

 * All privileges from the Discussions Moderator and Content Moderator groups.
 * No rate limits on account creation, moving pages and moving or uploading files.
 * The ability to protect a page so that only certain users can edit it, and permission to edit any protected page during extreme vandalism.
 * Block a user or IP address from editing the wiki.
 * The ability to grant and revoke both the Chat Moderator and Discussion Moderator rights.
 * Permission to edit the site interface, such as the sidebar and sitenotice, or the site skin.
 * Edit the Wiki's filters.
 * List of Sysops

Bureaucrats
Bureaucrats, being at the top of the hierarchy, have an additional ability to promote users up to their own ranking after passing a community vote. Users who found a wiki are automatically a bureaucrat of that wiki.
 * List of Bureaucrats

CheckUsers
Some bureaucrats are also CheckUsers, and can check what IP address a user is using to prevent abuse. See the CheckUser policy.
 * List of CheckUsers