MapbenderWiki:Administrators

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There are two special roles for users in this Wiki called sysops and bureaucrats. Neither Sysops nor Bureaucrats should ever use their powers to change content of this Wiki.

Sysops

Sysops can change content in a way that the normal Wiki does not allow, for example to delete pages altogether. Even deleted pages can be undeleted but they do not appear in searches and when called without additional parameters they are blank. Sysops are supposed to delete pages with content that has been entered by a Spambot or content that does not belong there. This is a tricky issues, especially in social and large public Wikis like Wikipedia where there are many many sometimes quite contrary opinions on one topic. As this Wiki is a rather technical place and there are only a handful of regular editors who know each other fairly well the administrators or sysops' job is not a difficult one.

Bureaucrats

The other type of role is called Bureaucrat. The bureaucrats' only job is to add or remove users from any of these two roles.

Bots

The third role "bots" is given to machines. They do cleaning up and checking tasks. Currently there are no bots active on the Mapbender Wiki.