A user's role determines his privileges to the various wiki functions in Skillport.
The wiki roles are:
Administrator: This user has the most privileges within a wiki. The administrator is responsible for setting up the wiki, assigning the wiki to Skillport Wiki users, assigning proper permissions to those users, and moderating inappropriate content within the wiki articles and comments. This user also has the permission to author content as well as participate in discussions and edit existing articles.
Author: This user has the permissions to create and moderate articles within the wiki as well as moderate comments left for the articles created.
Contributor: This user only has read-only permissions to the wiki; however, he can add discussions to a wiki article.