The Wiki guardian status is granted by Gamepedia's Claim a Wiki process. It comes with the same permission set as the normal administrator status but is in general granted at the very early stages of a wiki's existence, or because of a lack of an existing editorial community.
While in general, wiki administrators are no more than registered wiki users, who have been trusted with janitorial responsibilities, Wiki guardians are also expected to be proactive in recruiting editors from within the game community, being active on forums, and/or social media. They are in general expected to take more of a leadership role while establishing the wiki than an administrator on a more mature wiki. They are also expected to be active editors, adding game content, and working with the community in establishing the wiki's "style".
In every other way, Wiki guardians are the same as administrators. Wiki guardians are encouraged to read the Administrators Guide.
List of rights
Allowed to use web chat (webchat)
- Block a user from sending email (blockemail)
- Block a username, hiding it from the public (hideuser)
- Block other users from editing (block)
- Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks (ipblock-exempt)
- Change protection levels and edit cascade-protected pages (protect)
- Create and (de)activate tags (managechangetags)
- Create and edit widgets in the Widget namespace (editwidgets)
- Create new user accounts (createaccount)
- Delete tags from the database (deletechangetags)
- Delete pages (delete)
- Delete pages with large histories (bigdelete)
- Edit interwiki data (interwiki)
- Edit other users' CSS files (editusercss)
- Edit other users' JavaScript files (edituserjs)
- Edit pages protected as "Allow only administrators" (editprotected)
- Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users" (editsemiprotected)
- Edit restricted form fields (editrestrictedfields)
- 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)
- Mass delete pages (nuke)
- Merge the history of pages (mergehistory)
- Modify abuse filters (abusefilter-modify)
- Modify abuse filters with restricted actions (abusefilter-modify-restricted)
- Move category pages (move-categorypages)
- Move files (movefile)
- Move pages (move)
- Move pages with their subpages (move-subpages)
- Move root user pages (move-rootuserpages)
- Not be affected by IP-based rate limits (autoconfirmed)
- 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 or username blacklist (tboverride)
- Overwrite existing files (reupload)
- Overwrite existing files uploaded by oneself (reupload-own)
- 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)
- Revert all changes by a given abuse filter (abusefilter-revert)
- Search deleted pages (browsearchive)
- Unblock oneself (unblockself)
- Undelete a page (undelete)
- Upload files (upload)
- Use higher limits in API queries (apihighlimits)
- View a list of unwatched pages (unwatchedpages)
- View abuse filters (abusefilter-view)
- View deleted history entries, without their associated text (deletedhistory)
- View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions (deletedtext)
- View detailed abuse log entries (abusefilter-log-detail)
- View private data in the abuse log (abusefilter-private)
- View the abuse log (abusefilter-log)
- View the spam blacklist log (spamblacklistlog)
- View title blacklist log (titleblacklistlog)
- achievement_admin (achievement_admin)
- award_achievements (award_achievements)
- delete_achievements (delete_achievements)
- dpl_param_delete_rules (dpl_param_delete_rules)
- dpl_param_update_rules (dpl_param_update_rules)
- edit_achievements (edit_achievements)
- edit_meta_achievements (edit_meta_achievements)
- edit_streamer_info (edit_streamer_info)
- embed_pdf (embed_pdf)
- font_manager (font_manager)
- globalblock (globalblock)
- pagetranslation (pagetranslation)
- profile-moderate (profile-moderate)
- profile-purgecomments (profile-purgecomments)
- restore_achievements (restore_achievements)
- spritesheet_rollback (spritesheet_rollback)
- translate (translate)
- translate-groupreview (translate-groupreview)
- translate-import (translate-import)
- translate-manage (translate-manage)
- translate-messagereview (translate-messagereview)
- wiki_points_admin (wiki_points_admin)