User blog comment:BinksSakeYohoho/Wiki's Ranks/@comment-3279487-20111008133538


 * 1) what do you mean with "in charge"? The admins are the only ones with the rights to delete stuff, ban users and edit system pages, as well request the activation of new features from the Wikia staff. If you mean instead "control check" I guess everybody.
 * 2) Everybody if they provide the source or references, even IPs. But most of the times the issues must be discussed in the talk pages and eventually vote if an agreement isn't reached.
 * Yes, this is a free wiki, but there are some protection-level for the pages: a page is by default editable by everybody, IPs included, but admins can lock the page to registered-users-level or to admin-level (they can also change the protection for edit/move/upload). You have to be an user to upload an image. System pages (MediaWiki namespace) are reserved to admins. Every page (source history)  can be viewed by everyone.
 * 1) Wiki doesn't have ranks, unless you make them, but only "usergroups" (Rici explained them well).

For "policy-decision", we use polls so it's a democratic-like decisioning method. On other wikis they use "rational argumentations", so users explain the pro and cons in the discussions and the admins make the decisions based on them, like Wikipedia.