Editing 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 [[Special:Userlogin|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.

* '''Deckhands''': Named after the [[Deckhand|workers]] that keep the [[Viper (RDM)|Vipers]] of ''[[Galactica]]'' able to defend the [[The Fleet (RDM)|Fleet]] in the [[Re-imagined Series]], these ''trusted users'' are the same as the normal user, except that they have demonstrated reliable skills and numerous page edits to give them the privilege to [[BW:MOVE|move and rename article pages]].

* '''Chiefs''': Chiefs are known, in [[w:Main Page|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 [[Mop Boy|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 [[BW:WOW|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, [[BW:BLOCK|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. Bureaucrats also help in [[BW:RFC|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."

==See Also==
*[[Battlestar Wiki:Chiefs' noticeboard]]
*[[Battlestar Wiki:Page Moves]]
*[[Battlestar Wiki:About]]
*[[Battlestar Wiki:Blocking policy]]
*[[Battlestar Wiki:Banning policy]]
*[[Battlestar Wiki:Requests for adminship]]
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