Help:Founders

A founder is a role granted automatically to users who create a wiki.

User rights
Founders automatically receive administrator and bureaucrat rights on their community, giving them access to administrative tools like deletion and the ability to grant these rights to other users.

Beyond that, founders receive no special privileges or treatment and they do not "own" the wiki or community as per the wiki philosophy (and licensing). Founders are intended to help guide the wiki in its early stages, set its direction, establish its design, help nurture a community and eventually grant admin and even bureaucrat rights to other users.

If a founder is inactive and a wiki does not have additional bureaucrats, active users may consider adopting it to receive these rights and continue the founder's work.

Determining who is the community founder
In case someone wants to know who was the user who founded a wiki, there is no definite way to discover, but there are several signs.
 * The founder is likely to be the first editor in the Main Page edit history.
 * The founder is most likely to be the first to perform an action on the User Rights log - since the founder is initially the only bureaucrat and admin.
 * There was used to be a "Founder" tag on the user's profile masthead and on the List of admins (as long as they kept their bureacrat rights), but this tag does not exist on the UCP.
 * In a wiki where Achievements are enabled, the user who founded the wiki will get the "Founder" badge.

Further help and feedback
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