Help:Founders

A "founder" of a Wikia is simply the person who first proposed the wiki be created. Founders do not have any authority within the wiki to overrule the communities that form there, and they do not own the wiki that they founded. However, on the Dinosaur Wiki, (http://dino.wikia.com), the Founders there (there is an actual Founder rank given to 3 users for assisting create the wiki) have complete power, and all users report to them.

Founders are automatically given administrator and bureaucrat access to their wiki, but the purpose of this is to allow them to clean up vandalism more easily, not to give them control over the content. Any other regular editor of the wiki can also become an admin, either by asking the founder, or by adopting the wiki if the founder has since become inactive.

How do I contact a wiki's founder?
The founder of a wiki is listed on the description page for that wiki. On the Dinosaur Wiki (http://dino.wikia.com), the Founders can be contacted by using the “Contact a Founder” button on the sidebar.

If you are logged in and have a valid email address in your preferences, you may be able to contact a founder of a wiki using the email this user link on their user page. This will only work if they have a valid email address set in their preferences. You can also click the link to their user page, then click "discussion" and leave them a public message there.

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