This page offers an explanation on Tags, and how our Wiki grants them. Our Wiki has three types:
- Common Tags
- Title Tags
- Utility Tags
TL;DR
- New Account: users whose accounts have been recently created.
- Non-User: Autoconfirmed accounts (accounts over four days old) who have not yet joined the Wiki or do not yet exist at all.
- User: Autoconfirmed accounts who have joined the Wiki. An account is considered to have joined if they have at least one edit.
- Verified: accounts who have have been on the Wiki for 14 days and edited anything within the last 30 days.
- Inactive: Verified accounts who have not edited within the last 30 days.
New Account
This Tag is applied to newly created accounts so that they can be watched.
Non-User
Non-User Tags signify either accounts that are Autoconfirmed but have not yet joined the Wiki, or accounts that have not even been created at all.
User
This Tag signifies a User who has joined the Wiki (which can be done by editing an article, changing their profile picture here, or automatically if they created their account on this Wiki), and has been Autoconfirmed. This signifies a degree of interest in the Wiki. The User Tag signifies someone who has begun editing but is still rather new.
Verified
The Verified Tag, the best Common Tag, applies to Users who have been on the Wiki for 14 days and edited anything within the last 30 days.[1] The 14-day condition is to ensure that only longstanding members are Verified; Verified Users are generally more trustworthy than all others, & are taken more seriously, which is why they must have a time investment in the Wiki. However, if that condition is met, but not the second, then the following Tag will take effect:
Inactive
This self explanatory Tag signifies Verified Users who have since fallen into inactivity. It is slightly less prestigious than Verified since it signals that a User is not currently playing an active role on the Wiki.
Here, in brief, are some of the Title Tags; retired Tags may at one point be added for historical purposes, but that will likely be at a later date.
You are entitled to a VIP Tag if you meet one of the following conditions:
- You are a Diep.io YouTuber with at least 1,000 subscribers.
- You are an Bureaucrat or Administrator on either the Spanish or Taiwanese Diep.io Wikis; this is because we have a close relationship with these two Wikis.
- Senior Administrator — Active Bureaucrats.
- Community Admin — Users outfitted with most of the rights Full Administrators have, excepting primarily MediaWiki access.
- Moderator — Mods who can patrol all social areas of the Wiki.
- Sentinel — Patrollers who rollback, block, and use other tools.
- Code Admin — Users with access to MediaWiki and protected pages.
- Interns — Patrollers with temporary Sentinel or Moderator rights.
- Staff Artist — Pseudo-Staff members whose role involves the creation of art for official use by Staff throughout the Wiki.
- VIP — Important individuals from other Wikis or from associated websites such as Youtube or Discord.
- Founder — The Founder of the Diep.io Wiki.
- Bot — Signals that an account is a Bot.
- Rogue Bot — Signals a Bot that has been blocked due to it malfunctioning.
- Hiatus — Signals that a Staff Member is away on an excused absence.
- Blocked — Shows up if an account is blocked.
- Hiatus — Removed when the Hiatus is concluded or if the Staff Member is demoted.
- Blocked — Removed when a block expires or is lifted.
Global Tags are not considered in the list of three types our Wiki uses because it is controlled entirely by FANDOM Staff. Global Tags are granted for acquiring global user-groups and apply to all Wikis on FANDOM. See Help:User rights for more information, but for a short list, read below:
- FANDOM Staff — Self explanatory.
- FANDOM Helpers — FANDOM interlanguage aids.
- VSTF — Volunteer Spam Task Force; they fix vandalism across FANDOM.
- Global Discussions Moderators — Community-builders for the Discussions feature.
- VolDev — Volunteers who help develop and enhance FANDOM’s network-wide codebase.
- Vanguard — Volunteers who help to make FANDOM more portable.
- Councilor — FANDOM Product Testers.
- Global Bot — Bots that run on Wikis across FANDOM, not just on specific Wikis.
Script
Our Tags are granted, rescinded, customized, and automated via the UserTags Dev Script. Our configuration is stored in Tags.js and served sitewide via Common.js, while Wikia.css and PUT dictate Tag aesthetics.
This is mitigated by the fact that, due to skillful use of the
implode
and metafilter
modules, most Tags are fully automated; they are granted and rescinded without Administrators having to lift a finger, and this is done instantaneously. All Common Tags and half of the Utility Tags are fully automated, and therefore require no effort on the part of Administrators to maintain.All of the Staff Tags are semi-automated, in that they will automatically change when a user is promoted to a higher user-group or demoted to a lower one, but they must first be set up when a user joins Staff, which can take time. The Intern Tag is also fully automated, but beyond those, most Title Tags must be updated manually.
However, as it is a lighter script, it has no automation abilities to speak of; each and every Tag must be manually applied one-at-a-time, and individual Tags are more difficult to Style with CSS, making most Tags uniform if not absolutely plain. Switching to ProfileTags would completely rule out Common Tags as a concept, and it would increase the workload on Administrators manifold.
For these reasons, the Diep.io Wiki has opted to use UserTags instead of ProfileTags.