Halopedia:User group basics

On Halopedia, there are several user groups (also known as roles) assigned to users based on what the wiki needs, and the history of the user.

What are they?
User groups on Halopedia are what says what features a user can use while editing on the wiki. Users who have a user group or role on Halopedia are named the Halopedia Staff.

Halopedian
A Halopedian is a user who contributes to Halopedia. They are considered not part of the Halopedia Staff. As editors of the wiki, Halopedians have access to tools to assist them in improving the wiki's articles, such as editing semi-protected pages, renaming pages, and uploading images. It is the first user group available to a user, and they are the main bulk of the users on the Wiki.

Patroller
A Patroller is a user who has access to a few additional features such as marking edits as patrolled, blocking users, and moderating the forums. They are primarily seen as helping to check new edits and combat vandalism. A user has to submit a request, and go through a voting process to become a Patroller.

Administrator
An Administrator is a user who have access to a few additional features on the site for housekeeping for keeping wikis nice and tidy. The community does look to administrators to perform the essential chores that require the extra access administrators are entrusted with. A user has to be nominated by another Administrator and go through a voting process to get into this user group.

Bureaucrat
A Bureaucrat is an user that can assign or revoke user rights and rename user accounts. They also have the same abilities as an Administrator. It is a user group only held by other Administrators.

Developer
A Developer is the is an user that has access to certain database functions in order to manage the site. They also have the same abilities as an Administrator and Bureaucrat. It is held by the owner of the domain and the person who hosts the site.

Bots
A bot is an automated or semi-automated account for performing repetitive tasks that would be extremely tedious to do manually.

Promotion and demotion information
On Halopedia a user is able to be Promoted or Demoted through several different ways. Here is a list of what will be said in the case of a Promotion or Demotion:


 * Promoted - When a user gains a higher user group (for example Patroller to Administrator), their previous user group will be removed in the process.
 * Resigned - If a user wishes to resign from their position in the Halopedia staff, they can at any time without warning or reasoning. They should submit their resignation to another administrator. If a user is a Bureaucrat, they can pass down their user group to another user. If the user is a Halopedian they can't resign.
 * Honorably Discharged - Staff members who are demoted but not for a negative reason such as lack of activity, will have a reason provided.
 * Dishonorably Discharged - Staff members who are demoted for negative reasons will have this in the archives. Examples of this is abusing their power, illegal activities, or some form of malpractice.
 * Inactive - If a staff member is inactive for 6 months without activity, they will be demoted if they did not notify the other administrators first. After this, there will be three months for the user to return, if they return they will gain their role back.
 * Activated - This is used when a Bot is activated on the wiki.
 * Deactivated - This is used when a Bot is deactivated on the wiki.

Retired user groups
Below is a list of Halopedia user groups that were retired for one reason or another.

Rollbacker
A Rollbacker was a Halopedia user with the additional ability of being able to quickly roll-back edits. They were primarily seen helping to revert vandalism. This user group was fused with the Patroller user group. This user group was disbanded because most users in it were inactive, and due to the fact it was only skipping that one extra step to undo a revision to a page. You can read more why it was retired here.