Everybody who edits on the Bell Tree Forums Wiki is a user. All users have certain rights, however, some users, due to exception work or status, have additional rights to assist with editing.
Administrators[]
Administrators are users who help to run the wiki. They work to make sure the wiki is in a good condition, and helps with behind the scenes functions. They also have the same rights as other Users.
Administrator abilities[]
Administrators have the following abilities:
- Block a user from sending e-mail (blockemail)
- Block other users from editing (block)
- Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks (ipblock-exempt)
- Bypass automatic blocks of proxies (proxyunbannable)
- Change protection levels and edit protected pages (protect)
- Delete comments on blog articles (blog-comments-delete)
- Delete pages (delete)
- Delete pages with large histories (bigdelete)
- Edit blog articles (blog-articles-edit)
- Edit other users' CSS files (editusercss)
- Edit other users' JavaScript files (edituserjs)
- Edit semi-protected pages (autoconfirmed)
- Edit the user interface (editinterface)
- Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
- Import pages from a file upload (importupload)
- Import pages from other wikis (import)
- Mark others' edits as patrolled (patrol)
- Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits (markbotedits)
- Move blog articles (blog-articles-move)
- Move files (movefile)
- Move pages (move)
- Move pages with their subpages (move-subpages)
- Move root user pages (move-rootuserpages)
- Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)
- Not create redirects from source pages when moving pages (suppressredirect)
- Override files on the shared media repository locally (reupload-shared)
- Override the spoofing checks (override-antispoof)
- Override the title blacklist (tboverride)
- Overwrite existing files (reupload)
- Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA (skipcaptcha)
- Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page (rollback)
- Remove messages from the ShoutBox widget (shoutboxremove)
- Search deleted pages (browsearchive)
- Toggle comments on blog articles (blog-comments-toggle)
- Unblock themselves (unblockself)
- Undelete a page (undelete)
- Upload files (upload)
- Upload files from a URL (upload_by_url)
- Use higher limits in API queries (apihighlimits)
- View a list of unwatched pages (unwatchedpages)
- View deleted history entries, without their associated text (deletedhistory)
- View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions (deletedtext)
- achievements-explicit (achievements-explicit)
- admindashboard (admindashboard)
- blog-articles-protect (blog-articles-protect)
- commentdelete (commentdelete)
- commentedit (commentedit)
- commentmove (commentmove)
- deleteprofilev3 (deleteprofilev3)
- dumpsondemand (dumpsondemand)
- editwallarchivedpages (editwallarchivedpages)
- finishcreate (finishcreate)
- forum (forum)
- forumadmin (forumadmin)
- forumoldedit (forumoldedit)
- notifyeveryone (notifyeveryone)
- promote (promote)
- renameprofilev3 (renameprofilev3)
- specialvideosdelete (specialvideosdelete)
- themedesigner (themedesigner)
- walladmindelete (walladmindelete)
- wallarchive (wallarchive)
- walledit (walledit)
- wikianavlocal (wikianavlocal)
- wikifeatures (wikifeatures)
- Add groups: Bureaucrats, rollback and Administrators
- Remove groups: rollback, Administrators and Bots
Bureaucrat abilities[]
A bureaucrat can make other users into bureaucrats or administrators on their own wiki.
Bureaucrats can also give users the ability to "rollback" edits not made in good faith.
Becoming an administrator[]
For you to become an administrator, someone with bureaucrat access must make you one. On larger Wikia, there will usually be a community page for requests. On a smaller wiki, you may simply ask on the community portal or Forum, or ask a bureaucrat directly on his or her talk page.
If there are no active bureaucrats, use the "Requests for adminship" page to nominate users to become admins or bureaucrats. 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 Wikia Staff can provide the rights.
Adminmentor[]
The Adminmentor feature is a tool available to certain users. It is a way to help teach new administrators how to use their abilities. They also have the same rights as other Users.
Authenticated users[]
Authenticated users are people that have signed up for the wiki. They are just like other users, plus a few extra tools. They help to keep the wiki a safe, informative, and fun place to be. Their names are colored in black in the recent changes and history.
Abilities[]
Authenticated users have access to the following abilities that are not available to most other users:
- An account which has been vetted by Wikia, as being a legitimate industry source (for example, a celebrity or a game developer) (authenticated)
They also have the same rights as other Users.
Autoconfirmed users[]
Autoconfirmed users are people that have not yet signed up for the wiki. They are just like users, minus most tools for editing. They help to keep the wiki a safe, informative, and fun place to be.
Abilities[]
Autoconfirmed users have access to the following abilities:
- Edit semi-protected pages (autoconfirmed)
- Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA (skipcaptcha)
- dumpsondemand (dumpsondemand)
They also have the same rights as other Users.
Bots[]
Bots are programs run by users that can make automated edits on a wiki. They help users to make repetitive edits to many pages in order to save time. Bots have the following rights:
- Be treated as an automated process (bot)
- Edit semi-protected pages (autoconfirmed)
- Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
- Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)
- Not create redirects from source pages when moving pages (suppressredirect)
- Not have minor edits to discussion pages trigger the new messages prompt (nominornewtalk)
- Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA (skipcaptcha)
- Use higher limits in API queries (apihighlimits)
- Use of the write API (writeapi)
- welcomeexempt (welcomeexempt)
Additional information be be found here.
Global Bots[]
Global Bots are bots that are used by the Wikia Staff to perform massive tasks across all wikis. They have the following rights:
- Be treated as an automated process (bot)
- Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
- welcomeexempt (welcomeexempt)
Additional information be be found here.
Check users[]
Check users are special accounts chosen by Wikia Staff which are allowed to check IP addresses for spam and IP blockage avoiding. They have the following rights:
- Check user's IP addresses and other information (checkuser)
- View the checkuser log (checkuser-log)
Check user global[]
Global check users can check the IP address across the the entirety of Wikia instead of just one Wiki. They have the following rights:
- Check user's IP addresses and other information (checkuser)
- View the checkuser log (checkuser-log)
Council Members[]
Council Members are people that have signed up for the wiki. They are just like other users, plus a few extra tools. They help to keep the wiki a safe, informative, and fun place to be. Their names are colored in black in the recent changes and history. They have the following rights:
- council (council)
They also have the same rights as other Users.
Facebook Connect Users[]
Facebook Connect Users have the same rights as other users, except they have used Facebook Connect to join the wiki. They have the following rights:
- facebook-user (facebook-user)
They also have the same rights as other Users.
Wikia Helpers[]
Wikia Helpers are users who volunteer to help out Wikia Staff. They have the following rights:
- Block a user from sending e-mail (blockemail)
- Block other users from editing (block)
- Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks (ipblock-exempt)
- Bypass automatic blocks of proxies (proxyunbannable)
- Can display background tasks (taskmanager)
- Can manage global blocks and spam filters (phalanx)
- Change protection levels and edit protected pages (protect)
- Create and edit Platinum badges (platinum)
- Create discussion pages (createtalk)
- Create pages (which are not discussion pages) (createpage)
- Delete comments on blog articles (blog-comments-delete)
- Delete many pages at one Wikia, or one page on many Wikia (multidelete)
- Delete pages (delete)
- Delete pages with large histories (bigdelete)
- Edit a page on many wikis at once (multiwikiedit)
- Edit blog articles (blog-articles-edit)
- Edit other users' CSS files (editusercss)
- Edit other users' JavaScript files (edituserjs)
- Edit pages (edit)
- Edit semi-protected pages (autoconfirmed)
- Edit the user interface (editinterface)
- Exempt from Phalanx rules (phalanxexempt)
- Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
- Import pages from a file upload (importupload)
- Import pages from other wikis (import)
- InterwikiEdit (InterwikiEdit)
- Limit actions that can be preformed for some groups for a limited time (protectsite)
- Mark others' edits as patrolled (patrol)
- Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits (markbotedits)
- Mass delete pages (nuke)
- Move blog articles (blog-articles-move)
- Move files (movefile)
- Move pages (move)
- Move pages with their subpages (move-subpages)
- Move root user pages (move-rootuserpages)
- Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)
- Not create redirects from source pages when moving pages (suppressredirect)
- Override files on the shared media repository locally (reupload-shared)
- Override the title blacklist (tboverride)
- Overwrite existing files (reupload)
- Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page (rollback)
- Remove a user's avatar icon (removeavatar)
- Remove messages from the ShoutBox widget (shoutboxremove)
- Search deleted pages (browsearchive)
- Toggle comments on blog articles (blog-comments-toggle)
- Unblock themselves (unblockself)
- Undelete a page (undelete)
- Upload files (upload)
- Upload files from a URL (upload_by_url)
- Use higher limits in API queries (apihighlimits)
- View IP actions across all Wikia (multilookup)
- View a list of unwatched pages (unwatchedpages)
- View deleted history entries, without their associated text (deletedhistory)
- View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions (deletedtext)
- View user edits across all Wikia (lookupcontribs)
- achievements-exempt (achievements-exempt)
- admindashboard (admindashboard)
- blog-articles-protect (blog-articles-protect)
- commentdelete (commentdelete)
- createwikilimitsexempt (createwikilimitsexempt)
- deleteprofilev3 (deleteprofilev3)
- editprofilev3 (editprofilev3)
- editwallarchivedpages (editwallarchivedpages)
- forum (forum)
- forumadmin (forumadmin)
- forumoldedit (forumoldedit)
- licensedvideoswap (licensedvideoswap)
- marketingtoolbox (marketingtoolbox)
- mcachepurge (mcachepurge)
- multiwikifinder (multiwikifinder)
- notifyeveryone (notifyeveryone)
- performancestats (performancestats)
- promote (promote)
- renameprofilev3 (renameprofilev3)
- scavengerhunt (scavengerhunt)
- specialvideosdelete (specialvideosdelete)
- themedesigner (themedesigner)
- unblockable (unblockable)
- walladmindelete (walladmindelete)
- wallarchive (wallarchive)
- walledit (walledit)
- welcomeexempt (welcomeexempt)
- wikifeatures (wikifeatures)
- Add groups: rollback, Bots, Administrators and Bureaucrats
- Remove groups: rollback, Bots, Administrators and Bureaucrats
Rollbackers[]
The Rollback feature is a counter-vandalism tool available to Administrators, and users with the Rollbacker permission. The rollback feature allows a user to revert all of the edits by one user on a page, to the last edit by another user. This feature should only be used in reverting edits that are clearly vandalism. Rollback rights can be requested by contacting an administrator. They have the following rights:
- Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page (rollback)
They also have the same rights as other Users.
Staff[]
Wikia staff members have full access to all Wikia. They will be shown in Special:Listusers/staff on any wiki. Please use Special:Contact to contact Wikia staff. They have the following rights:
- Block a user from sending e-mail (blockemail)
- Block other users from editing (block)
- Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks (ipblock-exempt)
- Bypass automatic blocks of proxies (proxyunbannable)
- Can display background tasks (taskmanager)
- Can file, view and manage e-mail based blocks (phalanxemailblock)
- Can manage global blocks and spam filters (phalanx)
- Can view the stafflog (stafflog)
- Change protection levels and edit protected pages (protect)
- Create and edit Platinum badges (platinum)
- Create new user accounts (createaccount)
- Delete comments on blog articles (blog-comments-delete)
- Delete many pages at one Wikia, or one page on many Wikia (multidelete)
- Delete pages (delete)
- Delete pages with large histories (bigdelete)
- Edit a page on many wikis at once (multiwikiedit)
- Edit blog articles (blog-articles-edit)
- Edit other users' CSS files (editusercss)
- Edit other users' JavaScript files (edituserjs)
- Edit pages (edit)
- Edit semi-protected pages (autoconfirmed)
- Edit the user interface (editinterface)
- Exempt from Phalanx rules (phalanxexempt)
- Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
- Import pages from a file upload (importupload)
- Import pages from other wikis (import)
- Limit actions that can be preformed for some groups for a limited time (protectsite)
- Lock and unlock the database (siteadmin)
- Look up user preferences (lookupuser)
- Manage Sponsored achievements (sponsored-achievements)
- Mark others' edits as patrolled (patrol)
- Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits (markbotedits)
- Mass delete pages (nuke)
- Move blog articles (blog-articles-move)
- Move files (movefile)
- Move pages (move)
- Move pages with their subpages (move-subpages)
- Move root user pages (move-rootuserpages)
- Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)
- Not create redirects from source pages when moving pages (suppressredirect)
- Override files on the shared media repository locally (reupload-shared)
- Override the title blacklist (tboverride)
- Overwrite existing files (reupload)
- Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA (skipcaptcha)
- Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page (rollback)
- Remove a user's avatar icon (removeavatar)
- Remove messages from the ShoutBox widget (shoutboxremove)
- Search deleted pages (browsearchive)
- Set the default skin (setadminskin)
- Toggle comments on blog articles (blog-comments-toggle)
- Unblock themselves (unblockself)
- Undelete a page (undelete)
- Upload files (upload)
- Upload files from a URL (upload_by_url)
- Use higher limits in API queries (apihighlimits)
- Use of the write API (writeapi)
- View IP actions across all Wikia (multilookup)
- View a list of unwatched pages (unwatchedpages)
- View deleted history entries, without their associated text (deletedhistory)
- View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions (deletedtext)
- abtestpanel (abtestpanel)
- achievements-exempt (achievements-exempt)
- admindashboard (admindashboard)
- blog-articles-protect (blog-articles-protect)
- boardedit (boardedit)
- cacheepoch (cacheepoch)
- commentcsv (commentcsv)
- commentdelete (commentdelete)
- commentedit (commentedit)
- commentmove (commentmove)
- corporatepagemanager (corporatepagemanager)
- createwikilimitsexempt (createwikilimitsexempt)
- createwikimakefounder (createwikimakefounder)
- deleteprofilev3 (deleteprofilev3)
- dumpsondemand (dumpsondemand)
- editprofilev3 (editprofilev3)
- editwallarchivedpages (editwallarchivedpages)
- emailsstorage (emailsstorage)
- finishcreate (finishcreate)
- forum (forum)
- forumadmin (forumadmin)
- forumoldedit (forumoldedit)
- imagereviewstats (imagereviewstats)
- imageservingtest (imageservingtest)
- licensedvideoswap (licensedvideoswap)
- marketingtoolbox (marketingtoolbox)
- mcachepurge (mcachepurge)
- messagetool (messagetool)
- minieditor-specialpage (minieditor-specialpage)
- multiwikifinder (multiwikifinder)
- notifyeveryone (notifyeveryone)
- parserspeed (parserspeed)
- performancestats (performancestats)
- promote (promote)
- renameprofilev3 (renameprofilev3)
- runjob (runjob)
- scavengerhunt (scavengerhunt)
- scribeevents (scribeevents)
- specialvideohandler (specialvideohandler)
- specialvideosdelete (specialvideosdelete)
- themedesigner (themedesigner)
- unblockable (unblockable)
- userdata (userdata)
- walladmindelete (walladmindelete)
- wallarchive (wallarchive)
- walledit (walledit)
- wallfastadmindelete (wallfastadmindelete)
- wallshowwikiaemblem (wallshowwikiaemblem)
- welcomeexempt (welcomeexempt)
- wikianavglobal (wikianavglobal)
- wikianavlocal (wikianavlocal)
- wikifeatures (wikifeatures)
- Add groups: rollback, Bots, Administrators and Bureaucrats
- Remove groups: rollback, Bots, Administrators and Bureaucrats
Users[]
Users are people that have signed up for the wiki. They are just like other users, minus a few extra tools. They help to keep the wiki a safe, informative, and fun place to be. User's names are colored in black in the recent changes and history. They have the following rights:
- Create discussion pages
- Create pages (which are not discussion pages)
- Edit pages
- Mark edits as minor
- Move root user pages
- Override files on the shared media repository locally
- Overwrite existing files
- Purge the site cache for a page without confirmation
- Read pages
- Upload files
- Use of the write API
How do I become a user?[]
Users simply have to sign up for the wiki by clicking the following link.
Wikia Utilities[]
Wikia Utilities members are those who have extra abilities compared to regular staff. They have the following rights:
- Can display background tasks (taskmanager)
- Can manage background tasks (taskmanager-action)
- Check user's IP addresses and other information (checkuser)
- Delete and undelete specific revisions of pages (deleterevision)
- Edit all user rights (userrights)
- Look up user preferences (lookupuser)
- Review and restore revisions hidden from administrators (suppressrevision)
- View private logs (suppressionlog)
- View the checkuser log (checkuser-log)
- messagetool (messagetool)
- piggyback (piggyback)
- powerdelete (powerdelete)
- quickadopt (quickadopt)
- quicktools (quicktools)
- walldelete (walldelete)
They also have the same rights as other Users.
Volunteer Developers[]
Volunteer Developers are users who assist Wikia Staff with the development of Wikia. They have the following rights:
- voldev (voldev)
They also have the same rights as other Users.
VSTF[]
The VSTF or the Spam Task Force, are users who have global administrator abilities to prevent mass spam. They have the following rights:
- Block a user from sending e-mail (blockemail)
- Block other users from editing (block)
- Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks (ipblock-exempt)
- Can display background tasks (taskmanager)
- Can kick/ban users from Chat (chatmoderator)
- Can manage global blocks and spam filters (phalanx)
- Change protection levels and edit protected pages (protect)
- Check user's IP addresses and other information (checkuser)
- Create discussion pages (createtalk)
- Create pages (which are not discussion pages) (createpage)
- Delete and undelete specific revisions of pages (deleterevision)
- Delete many pages at one Wikia, or one page on many Wikia (multidelete)
- Delete pages (delete)
- Delete pages with large histories (bigdelete)
- Edit semi-protected pages (autoconfirmed)
- Edit the user interface (editinterface)
- Exempt from Phalanx rules (phalanxexempt)
- Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
- Limit actions that can be preformed for some groups for a limited time (protectsite)
- Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits (markbotedits)
- Mass delete pages (nuke)
- Move files (movefile)
- Move pages (move)
- Move pages with their subpages (move-subpages)
- Move root user pages (move-rootuserpages)
- Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)
- Not create redirects from source pages when moving pages (suppressredirect)
- Override files on the shared media repository locally (reupload-shared)
- Override the title blacklist (tboverride)
- Overwrite existing files (reupload)
- Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA (skipcaptcha)
- Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page (rollback)
- Remove messages from the ShoutBox widget (shoutboxremove)
- Undelete a page (undelete)
- Use higher limits in API queries (apihighlimits)
- View IP actions across all Wikia (multilookup)
- View deleted history entries, without their associated text (deletedhistory)
- View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions (deletedtext)
- View the checkuser log (checkuser-log)
- View user edits across all Wikia (lookupcontribs)
- achievements-exempt (achievements-exempt)
- commentdelete (commentdelete)
- commentedit (commentedit)
- commentmove (commentmove)
- deleteprofilev3 (deleteprofilev3)
- editprofilev3 (editprofilev3)
- editwallarchivedpages (editwallarchivedpages)
- licensedvideoswap (licensedvideoswap)
- mcachepurge (mcachepurge)
- multiwikifinder (multiwikifinder)
- notifyeveryone (notifyeveryone)
- powerdelete (powerdelete)
- quicktools (quicktools)
- renameprofilev3 (renameprofilev3)
- specialvideosdelete (specialvideosdelete)
- unblockable (unblockable)
- walladmindelete (walladmindelete)
- wallarchive (wallarchive)
- walledit (walledit)
- wallfastadmindelete (wallfastadmindelete)
- welcomeexempt (welcomeexempt)
- Add groups: rollback and Bots
- Remove groups: rollback and Bots
- Add group to own account: Administrators
- Remove groups from own account: Administrators and Bureaucrats
They also have the same rights as other Users.
Wikia Stars[]
Wikia Stars are users who have the Wikia Stars label. They have the following rights:
- displaywikiastarslabel (displaywikiastarslabel)
They also have the same rights as other Users.