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On the Sonic Wiki Zone, certain users have access to particular features of the site. While any user has access to the majority of functions on the site, including reading and editing, an administrator, or system operator (sysop), has access to a few additional features in order to maintain the website. All administrators are wiki volunteers chosen by the users and are generally known, experienced, and trusted members of the community.
Administrators are not imbued with any special "power", and are equal to everyone else in terms of editorial responsibility. The terms "administrators" and "sysop" are misnomers, as they are simply used to indicate Sonic Wiki Zone users who have had performance and security-based restrictions lifted because they are trustworthy and responsible. It should be noted administrators do not have any "special power" over other users, but rather enforce and apply community decisions.
The community does look to administrators to perform essential housekeeping chores that require the extra access administrators are entrusted with, such as the deletion of articles and blocking of unruly editors. Since administrators are experienced members of the community, users seeking help should turn to an administrator for advice and information.
A bureaucrat can give additional rights to the users, that administrators cannot give. While bureaucrats are largely similar to administrators in general editing and housekeeping, their opinions are almost always considered in important policy decisions that affect the whole site, as well as determining consensus in difficult cases. Other than that, the role of a bureaucrat is similar to the role of the administrator. Note that any user can revoke the rights given to them, but they cannot regain it after that, without an administrator or bureaucrat's help (depending on the type of that right).
SWZ's user groups
Bureaucrats
Bureaucrats can appoint more bureaucrats, administrators, content moderators, rollbacks and bots on the wiki or revoke these rights from users. Except that, the "Bureaucrat" state can only be removed by Fandom Staff and Helpers, or by users who own that state. This group has the ability to block and unblock anonymous and registered users too, but lacks any other additional abilities that the administrators have.
| Username | Contact | Contributions | Posts | Log actions | Occupation |
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| Luma.dash (RfUR) | Contact | Contributions | Posts | Log actions |
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| SilverPlays97 (RfUR) | Contact | Contributions | Posts | Log actions |
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Administrators
| Username | Contact | Contributions | Posts | Log actions | Occupation |
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| HeroesSquad (RfUR) | Contact | Contributions | Posts | Log actions |
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| Josiahblaze (RfUR) | Contact | Contributions | Posts | Log actions |
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| Mresc (RfUR) | Contact | Contributions | Posts | Log actions |
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| Myself 123 (RfUR) | Contact | Contributions | Posts | Log actions |
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| Mystic Monkey (RfUR) | Contact | Contributions | Posts | Log actions |
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List of former administrators
Content Moderators
Content Moderators are selected users with the ability to moderate parts of the community that host the Sonic Wiki Zone's content. They assume the following administrator abilities: Deleting and undeleting pages, protecting and unprotecting pages, suppress redirect on page moves, reuploading files, patrolling other users edits, rollback and edit user blogs.
| Username | Contact | Contributions | Posts | Log action | Occupation |
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| Crazy Muzzarino (RfUR) | Contact | Contributions | Posts | Log actions |
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| DiegoUreta68 (RfUR) | Contact | Contributions | Posts | Log actions |
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| Mothsoot (RfUR) | Contact | Contributions | Posts | Log actions |
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| Skooa (RfUR) | Contact | Contributions | Posts | Log actions |
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| SkyRider747 (RfUR) | Contact | Contributions | Posts | Log actions |
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| TailsGirl6000 (RfUR) | Contact | Contributions | Posts | Log actions |
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Rollbacks
Rollbacks are selected users with the ability to "rollback", or quickly revert, edits made by a user. See Project:Administrators#Reverting for more information on how the "rollback" permission works.
| Username | Contact | Contributions | Posts | Log action | Occupation |
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| ElixirBlue (RfUR) | Contact | Contributions | Posts | Log actions |
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| FredCat100 (RfUR) | Contact | Contributions | Posts | Log actions |
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| Kettlon (RfUR) | Contact | Contributions | Posts | Log actions |
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| Makyzi143! (RfUR) | Contact | Contributions | Posts | Log actions |
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| MontyMoleLoreMaster (RfUR) | Contact | Contributions | Posts | Log actions |
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Discussions Moderators
Discussions Moderators are selected users with the ability to moderate parts of the community where conversations are traditionally held. They assume the following administrator abilities: moderation of the forum, moderation of the chat, moderation of message walls, and moderation of blog comments.
| Username | Contact | Contributions | Posts | Log action | Occupation |
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| BurgerGuyForever (RfUR) | Contact | Contributions | Posts | Log actions |
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| ChardonnayBloo (RfUR) | Contact | Contributions | Posts | Log actions |
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| Kettlon (RfUR) | Contact | Contributions | Posts | Log actions |
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| Talking Gina (RfUR) | Contact | Contributions | Posts | Log actions |
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Interactive map tester
Interactive map testers are a new usergroup that can create and edit interactive map templates.
Bot accounts
Bot accounts are alternative accounts that belong to established users here on the wiki. They are used to help make small and/or repetitive tasks in isolation of wiki's tracking activity feeds, although one can keep track of their edits if "show bots" is marked on Special:Recentchanges.
For an account to be flagged as a bot, one has to contact a bureaucrat. Once the request is approved by the bureaucrat, the user is free to utilize third-party applications for doing tasks on their bot accounts.
| Username | Maintainer | Contributions | Log actions |
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| HS bot | HeroesSquad | Contributions | Log actions |
| Lumabot1 | Luma.dash | Contributions | Log actions |
| SP97 bot | SilverPlays97 | Contributions | Log actions |
Fandom staff
Certain users have special tools given to them from Fandom. These user groups include the Volunteer Spam Task Force, Technical Community Support Specialists, Global bots and moderators, the Community Technical Team, and Fandom staff.
List of wiki-based contributors
What are the functions of an administrator?The Wiki software has a few important features that are restricted to only administrators for security purposes. Of those restricted features, administrators have access to the following: Protected pages
Deletion and undeletion
Reverting
Block and unblock
Design and wording of the interface
For more system messages, see this. Management of discussions
What can administrators not do?Administrators should not use their administrator powers to settle editing disputes; for example, to lock a page on a version he or she prefers in an editing dispute that isn't vandalism. Administrator powers should be used to help keep the wiki clear of vandalism, spam and users who make malicious edits, but not for simple disagreements between users acting in good faith. Ideally an admin shouldn't be considered "in charge." The ideal admin is just someone who is trusted to have a few extra buttons and to use them for the benefit of the community. All admin decisions are done in good faith. It is not uncommon for users, or the community, to disagree with them. The community and users have the right to ask why a decision was done and, if it is agreed upon, to undo it. This does not include bans; only the users involved and admins (and chat mods, if it is a chat ban), have the right to discuss it openly. Respect the wiki's Administrators! They are nominated for their positions and are respected members of the community. If you find an admin's actions questionable, it is best to contact another admin. Gaining user rightsIf you have been editing this wiki for some time and have gained the trust of the community here, you may nominate yourself or someone else for user rights at Board:User Rights Requests. Other users can comment on whether or not they approve your request. After two weeks, you should inform the current bureaucrats so they can assess the comments and decide whether or not to give you the rights you desire. Removal of user rightsUser rights of a contributor may be removed without discussion only for vandalism, harassment, spam, sexual conduct, excessive harsh language, excessively violent content, or violations of the Wikia Terms of Use. Otherwise, user rights may be removed only after discussion on the Requests for User Rights board if they are unwilling to cooperate with the wiki community. Lapsing rightsUser rights of a contributor may lapse and be removed if the contributor in question has not made a substantial amount of edits or posts in a four month interval of time. Users will be notified of their pending demotion two weeks in advance. If the user fails to respond within the aforementioned timeframe, they will be relieved of their user rights. Once relieved of their rights, within a year after the user in question loses their rights, they can ask an active Bureaucrat to give them back after becoming active within the community again. Should the user return and become active after a year has passed since their rights were removed, the user will need to nominate themselves again for the user rights in question and gain the appropriate majority necessary for the rights.
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