Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-31035787-20150428065519

Greetings, Yogscast Wikians.

Despite the fact that I am kind of late to announce this, on January 20th 2015, Wikia announced a new rights level that has since then been applied to all Wikis — the Moderator. Moderators are similar to Chat Moderators but different in many ways.

First, I will outline what the Moderator can and can't do. Assiociated with this, the abilities of normal users has also changed to make room for the Moderator, as listed below.

What Can Moderators Do?
Regarding Forums

Moderators can:
 * Close, reopen, remove and restore threads
 * Remove and restore replies
 * Highlight and un-highlight threads
 * Move threads between boards
 * Manage boards (editing names, descriptions and order)

Regular Users can:
 * No longer remove and restore replies, except replies they posted
 * No longer remove and restore threads, except threads they posted
 * No longer move threads between boards

Regarding Message Walls

Moderators can:
 * Close, reopen, remove and restore threads
 * Remove and restore replies

Regular Users can: Regular users are not able to revert actions performed by Moderators or Admins (remove, restore, close, reopen), even on their own Message Walls. Administrators and above automatically have Moderator rights.
 * No longer remove and restore replies, except replies they posted
 * No longer remove and restore threads on other Message Walls, except threads they posted
 * Remove, restore, close and reopen threads on their own Message Wall

For more information, visit this blog.

Actions Regarding This New Rights Level
With this new rights level, it means that the Rights Requests page would require an update and the columns of the Admin Team would also need to be edited. But before we do anything, it is important to decide where on the list of rights the Moderator belongs.

As it says on the blog over at Community Central, Admins can give Moderator rights, similar to how they have the capability to give Chat Moderator Rights. Only Bureaucrats can give Rollback rights, so the rights level of the Moderator is definitely below that of a Rollback, possibly around the same level as a Chat Moderator.

So, now, we must discuss what the requirements for a Moderator are, and also whether it is above, below or at the same rights level as a Chat Moderator. Currently, the requirements for a Chat Moderator is being an autoconfirmed user and having 1 active month on the Wiki. So, what should the requirements for a Moderator be?

On another note, new tags and shades of comments would be required if this goes ahead. Some changes in the Wiki coding will be required for the introduction of this new rights level.

Signed,  