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Everyone on Wikianswers can ask and answer questions, rephrase questions, or flag questions for deletion.
The top priority on Wikianswers is getting the questions answered and you don't need to be a supervisor to do that!
[edit] What can supervisors do?
- Supervisors can delete and undelete pages and can read deleted pages. Other users can flag pages for deletion by a supervisor.
- Edits by supervisors are automatically marked as patrolled. Any logged in user can mark edits by other people as patrolled.
- Supervisors have 1-click rollback button for quickly reverting vandalism.
- Anyone can move pages. Supervisors can also move images, and they can suppress redirects when moving a page (not recommended except in cases of vandalism as redirects are helpful to people searching for an answer).
- Supervisors automatically receive use of the action panel. Other users can also ask for this on the forum.
[edit] How can I become a supervisor?
You should have plenty of experience in doing the basic wiki tasks of answering, rewording, and categorizing, before volunteering to become a supervisor. Supervisors are experienced users who have already answered hundreds of questions on Wikianswers and want to help keep the wiki clean by deleting questions that are not allowed on Wikianswers. Supervisors should be willing to take advice from others and work in a collaborative and sensible way. When you're ready to volunteer, just leave a message on Project:Becoming a supervisor.
[edit] What about admins?
There are no administrators or bureaucrats on Wikianswers. Instead, there are supervisors who clean up using deletion tools and managers who can block users and promote people to supervisor level.
[edit] Tasks only for supervisors
[edit] Tasks that supervisors and others can do
- Check recent changes and undo any vandalism.
- Check new questions and fix any bad questions by rewording them.
- Check new questions and fix any duplicate questions by redirecting them.
- List bad questions for deletion by adding {{delete|reason}} to them.
- Redirect often-asked bad questions to this page.
- Answer un-answered questions.
- Advise and encourage new editors by leaving them messages on their talk page or board.
- Participate in the forums.
- Visit Requests for help and see if you can help out.
[edit] List of supervisors
See Special:ListUsers/supervisor for an automatic list. Wikia staff and helpers may also have supervisor access here. In addition to human supervisors, some bots have the ability to delete pages, including - Charibot (run by Charitwo). Some supervisors also have the ability to block users and to promote users into supervisors. Those people are called managers.
