Inkipedia:Bureaucrats



Bureaucrat, typically shortened to b'crat, is the highest level of user the wiki has. Bureaucrats lead the admin team and maintain the wiki's core.

Commonly used functions
Main article: User group rights
 * Bureaucrats have all the functions of an admin.
 * IP lookup
 * Database modification and plugin/extension installation, enabling, disabling
 * Many additional functions not listed above

Becoming a bureaucrat
Main article: Requests for rights
 * Only current admins are eligible for bureaucrat rights.
 * Other active admins must hold an election to vote an editor for bureaucrat rights, and this must be seconded by a current bureaucrat.

Demotion
Main article: Demotion

This is only in extremely rare circumstances. A user with rights can be demoted through Inkipedia's democratic demotion request process. Demotion requests for a bureaucrat can only be processed by another bureaucrat.

Current bureaucrats
 An up-to-date list can be fetched using Special:ListUsers/bureaucrat.

These users were chosen by the community and will serve indefinite terms until they resign, become inactive, or are impeached by the community. They are identified by the gold names found on the recent changes page.