User:Xbony2/Sandbox/Groups 2

My renewed groups proposal. This is WIP, so don't give much commentary on it yet!

Main hierarchy
This is a hierarchy; rights from the lower groups move move up to the higher groups.

Bureaucrats

 * Can assign/change/remove groups. Should only be done after going through proper procedures.

Administrators

 * Can edit all protected pages.
 * Can protected/unprotect high-use pages.
 * Can manage tags.
 * Can edit the Interwiki table.
 * Can edit all user's CSS/JS files.
 * Can import pages from other wikis.
 * Can edit MediaWiki messages.
 * Can mass delete pages (nuke).
 * Can modify abuse filters.
 * Can manage achievements, cloudflare, connectstats, wikipoints, etc.
 * Can delete revisions and view deleted revisions (note revisions should only be deleted if it contains personal information or in other similar cases).
 * Translation administrators' rights.

Staff

 * Can patrol pages.
 * Can edit staff-protected pages.
 * Can ban/unban users.
 * Can operate a closed-sourced bot.
 * Promoted based on staff vote.
 * Demoted after 3 months of inactivity without contact or notice, or when banned or as punishment, or on request from the editor. If demoted for inactivity, should be placed in "editor" group; this allows a retired staff member to be have a leg up if they want to create content for the wiki again.

Editors

 * Can delete/undelete pages.
 * Can create and edit tilesheets.
 * Can edit the OreDict.
 * Can move pages.
 * Is automatically patrolled.
 * Can edit editor-protected pages.
 * Can re-upload images made by other users.
 * Can operate a bot. Must be visible or open sourced, however.
 * Promoted based on staff choosing; any staff can nominate a user for editor rights if they are trustworthy and if they create documentation past a few pages. Requires no formal vote.
 * Demoted only when banned or as punishment or on request from the editor.

Users

 * Can upload images (and re-upload own images).
 * Can edit user-protected pages.
 * Can translate pages.
 * Can have their own user page.

IPs

 * Can view pages.
 * Can create pages and edit unprotected pages.

Special groups
These groups exist for users who serve a particular usage in the wiki.

Admin Bot

 * See- Bot and Administrators.

Curse

 * Can... do anything they want, really.
 * Can re-assign groups in the event all of the bureaucrats are murdered, or go insane, or have their accounts compromised (or more likely, leave and become inactive on the wiki).
 * Curse-controlled.

Curse Bots

 * See- Bot and Curse.
 * Curse-controlled.

Bots

 * Extension of Editor.
 * Are treated as an automated process (bot).
 * Have higher limits in API queries.
 * Editors/Staff can promote bots.
 * Shouldn't be demoted, but can be banned.

DACs (dev appointed curator)

 * Extension of Editor.
 * Considered a form of staff.
 * Promoted based on mod author choosing; any mod author can nominate a user for DAC rights if they are trusted. Requires no formal vote.
 * Demoted after 3 months of inactivity without contact or notice, or when banned or as punishment, or on request from the DAC or mod author. If demoted for inactivity, should be placed in "editor" group; this allows a retired DAC member to be have a leg up if they want to create content for the wiki again.

Official translator

 * Can import offline translations.
 * Extension of Staff.

Staff Bot

 * See- Bot and Staff.

Translation administrators

 * Can change message groups.
 * Can import offline translations.
 * Can manage message groups.
 * Can mark versions of pages for translation.

Misc tasks needed to be done

 * Disabling WikiClaims- on most large, established wikis, such as this one, they are disabled. See mcw:Special:WikiClaims,, , ,  etc...
 * Re-assigning of groups, especially to retired users.
 * Removal of non-existant groups (eg. Smwadministrator) (need to talk to Curse about this)