Battlestar Wiki:User types

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Battlestar Wiki would not be a concise, extensive encyclopedia were it not for the many people who actively read, make changes and additions, or handle the cleanup and policy functions that expand and maintain the wiki.

There are essentially five types of visitors to Battlestar Wiki:

  • "Refugees": Battlestar Wiki is an publicly-available MediaWiki-based encyclopedia that anyone can read without contributing or editing. Borrowed from Battlestar Galactica's name for its civilian population (which rarely affect policy and are primarily spectators), the number of Battlestar Wiki "lurkers" range in the thousands, who come to check a fact, episode event, or character periodically.
  • Civilians: To edit any article on Battlestar Wiki, you must create a user account for yourself. (Sorry, to limit spam vandals and other bot attacks, you have to create an account and cannot post anonymously.) These users can edit almost any article and some internal wiki policy and project pages, but cannot move pages.
  • Chiefs: Chiefs are known, in Wikipedia parlance, as administrators. They are named after the role that Chief Galen Tyrol has in organizing other deckhands and staff in keeping Galactica defended. From the junior chief to the more experienced, chiefs are trusted users who have also demonstrated knowledge (and adherence to) Battlestar Wiki policy. Chiefs receive a handful of tools to expedite quick changes to articles and user accounts to maintain wiki performance, article integrity and accuracy. Chiefs don't get any special "say" over other users and have only one vote in matters of wiki policy and consensus. Chiefs have the power, with sufficient cause, to block users who violate Battlestar Wiki policies, guidelines, consensus and practices.
  • Senior Chiefs: Senior Chiefs (also known as bureaucrats or "b-crats" in Wikipedia-speak) are trusted users (or chiefs) who have additional tools to change user privileges on Battlestar Wiki. After proper authority given from user consensus and policy, senior chiefs can create other chiefs, senior chiefs and deckhands. We also manage all username problems. Bureaucrats also help in disputes.

The Unofficial "Clubs"

For levity, Battlestar Wiki members sometimes pretend that their privileges have a club name, based on their rights and responsibilities. You may see these "club names" jokingly used when a user's privileges change as part of the fun of helping Battlestar Wiki, so don't take the names seriously.

  • Refugees and civilians may be called members of the "Order of the Broom."
  • Deckhands may be called members of the "Order of the Sponge."
  • Chiefs may be called members of the "Order of the Mop." The Mop Boy is the junior chief.
  • Senior Chiefs may be called members of the "Order of the Squeegee."

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