Guild Wars 2 Wiki:Adminship 2007-12-31

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The English language Guild Wars Wiki is administered by the community. Individual administrators are selected and given additional powers to help maintain and improve the wiki. There are three levels of adminship: agents, sysops and bureaucrats.

Administration and ArenaNet

ArenaNet is not formally involved in the administrator selection process except where explicitly specified. Community decisions may not be appealed to them. ArenaNet staff may participate in the administrator selection process just as any other contributor in good standing, but their opinions are given equal weight as other members of the community.

Agents

Agents are sysops in a probationary level. The agent's primary role is site maintenance, they perform cleanup tasks (deleting pages, undoing page move vandalism) and can block accounts and IP addresses according to blocking policy. They are not allowed to take actions beyond the policy permits them to do, and they defer to sysops in cases of ambiguity.

Agents are selected by a review process according to Guild Wars 2 Wiki:Requests for adminship. A selected agent is appointed for a month, after that time bureaucrats decide whether they are promoted to sysop, stay as agent for another month or loses all adminship. An agent may voluntarily resign their position anytime. Their status may be formally examined by the Arbitration committee.

For a complete list of agents, see Special:Listadmins/agent.

To start a new nomination, see Guild Wars 2 Wiki:Requests for adminship.

Sysops

Sysops perform all agent's tasks with additional power and responsibilities. Sysops also protect critical or unusually contentious pages from editing. Sysops are charged with mediation of disputes between users. Sysops are spected to enforce the "spirit of the policy" which is the reason why the policy exists rather than what the policy explicity says, therefore they are granted reasonable discretion, they are allowed to take actions beyond the policy permits them to do, but they are not allowed to take actions the policy prevents them to do. They also can revert any action taken by agents and other sysops. A sysop is encouraged (but not required) to make available a means for other users to contact him or her privately, such as by email (via the wiki or otherwise).

Sysops are selected by bureaucrats from terminated agents. They are appointed for life, but may voluntarily resign. Their status may also be subject to a reconfirmation process or formally examined by the Arbitration committee.

For a complete list of sysops, see Special:Listadmins/sysop.

Bureaucrats

Bureaucrats have the power to appoint or revoke the administrative status of users based on community decisions. Additionally, the group of bureaucrats, as long as there are at least 2, form an Arbitration committee, who are the final arbiters on the English language Guild Wars Wiki of user conduct (but not content decisions), including that of administrators.

The group of bureaucrats is mutually exclusive from the group of sysops -- any status as sysop is temporarily demoted to agent while appointed as a bureaucrat. Bureaucrats have some extra user rights, such as editing protected pages and viewing deleted pages, and may unblock their own account for arbitration purposes if necessary. Any revoked sysop status is reinstated at the end of the bureaucrat term, or upon resignation.

Due to their important role in the community, bureaucrats are held to a higher standard than sysops. All bureaucrats are expected to provide explanations for the use of their powers, and they are additionally expected to respond to any questions about their actions from anyone, including via e-mail. All bureaucrats are required to list a publicly reachable e-mail address.

Bureaucrats are generally appointed for fixed terms of 6 months from their date of appointment. The terms are staggered to have at least three bureaucrats active at all times. New bureaucrats are elected to an open position by community-wide open elections. Bureaucrats may run for re-election arbitrarily often. Any contributor (even non-administrators) in good standing may run for an open position. See Guild Wars 2 Wiki:Elections for a description of the minister election process and a list of current open elections.

Bureaucrats are considered members of the ArbComm based upon the date the request for arbitration is made. If a bureaucrat loses his seat during an arbitration, he still acts as a member of ArbComm for that case until the arbitration is complete. Similarly, if a user attains a bureaucrat seat in the middle of an arbitration, he is ineligible to participate in that arbitration.

Bureaucrats may resign at any time. Sitting bureaucrats can only be removed by unanimous votes of the other bureaucrats.

The current bureaucrats in the Guild Wars 2 Wiki are:

• User:Dirigible (zee.dirigible@gmail.com)

  Term: July 1, 2007 – December 31, 2007

• User:LordBiro (paul.boxley@gmail.com)

  Term: August 1, 2007 – February 29, 2008

• User:Xeeron (wiki@xeeron.de)

  Term: September 1, 2007 - April 30, 2008