In January 2016, Wikia introduced new Moderator user rights who have limited access to administrative privileges.
- Content Moderators can protect and delete pages, and move and delete files, in addition to all rights of a Rollback.
- Discussions Moderators can edit and delete article and blog comments, and edit, move, close and remove threads and replies on message walls and forum boards, in addition to all rights of a Chatmod.
- Admins remain the only group who can edit the site's themes, features, and system messages, and along with Bureaucrats are the only group who can block users and edit user rights.
We are still entirely entrenched in the old system, so I would like to open up a discussion on how best we could use these new moderator roles, how moderators could be chosen, and whether there are any existing users who could be fast-tracked from Rollback to Moderator to assist in their editing.