User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Introducing New Moderator Opportunities For Community Administration/@comment-5007040-20160114154355/@comment-1251315-20160114194849

Some wiki's have made it possible for sysops to grant additional rights so that bureaucrat becomes more of a meaningless user group. The rights that Wikia sets are the base group rights for all wikia, but Wikia can tweak the group for individual wiki's on request of a sysop at the wiki in question. They did this for a wiki I used to edit on, which made bureaucrat less meaningful there.