---
title: Editing and moderation
tags: [Running]
---

Every wiki runs itself: its owner, admins and moderators make the day-to-day calls, within the platform's rules.

## Roles

:::table
Role, Can
Owner, Everything below; hands ownership on
Admin, Settings; gives roles
Moderator, Blocks; deletes and restores pages; hides revisions; handles reports
Trusted editor, Reviews new editors' edits and uploads; writes components; adds emotes and Wiki Data
Editor, Edits pages; uploads files
:::

Editors become **autoconfirmed** after a few days and a few accepted edits (the wiki sets how many). Until then their uploads wait for review, they upload one file at a time, and some edits ask for a quick check that they're human.

## Edit modes

The owner picks one:

- **Open:** everyone signed in edits; new editors' edits that add links to other sites are reviewed first.
- **Reviewed:** new editors' edits wait in the **Review queue** until a trusted editor accepts them.
- **Closed:** only trusted editors and up edit.

Pages can also be protected one by one, so only trusted editors or admins change them.

## When things go wrong

- **History** shows every version of a page, what changed, and who changed it; any version can be restored.
- **Rollback** undoes all of someone's recent edits at once: pages, components and Wiki Data.
- **Blocks** stop someone editing this wiki, for a while or for good, with a reason they can see.
- **Reports:** readers can report a page; moderators see reports with the rest of the moderation tools.
- **Hiding:** a revision with personal information can be hidden from everyone but moderators.

Every moderation action goes in a public log, so the community can see how its wiki is run.