Leader
The leader of a wiki is a person who is the principal, senior administrator in charge of the site; either by means of founding the wiki, being asked to take over from the retiring founder, or adopting a dormant and / or abandoned wiki site.
The leader may be an active contributor and key member of the community of editors; or, as in the case of WikiIndex, may be 'hands-off'John Stanton (founder) and Ray King (owner) and leave the day-to-day running to another senior memberMarkDilley of the community.
User group rights
Wiki leaders are usually members of both sysop and Bureaucrat usergroups, which means they usually hold highest user group rights in order to enforce their leadership if necessary. Depending upon their level of wiki expertise, may also be a member of the interwiki usergroup, or may even have created an additional bot account if they tend towards micromanagement. This reflects the usual style of the society they stem from. But this is only one possibility out of many. High user group rights are no indispensable prerequisites for wiki leadership.
Number
The number of leaders of any wiki can vary. Necessarily there is only one leader on a Category:BlikiBliki because it is a personal thing and not a collaboratory effort. Depending on the type of hierarchy and size of a wiki there can be need of several leaders. In case of a wiki about grassroots movements and grassroots democracy the hierarchy would be as flat as can be which makes every active member of such community a leader. This depends very much on the founder or group of founders and their approach. Either the focus lies on the wiki as a structure or on the Wki People as a community.
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