Guild Wars 2 Wiki:Adminship 2008-03-28
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The English language Guild Wars 2 Wiki is administered by the community. New administrators are mostly selected by a democratic process in the English language Guild Wars 2 Wiki. There are three levels of adminship: specialist, sysop, and bureaucrat.
Administration and ArenaNet[edit]
ArenaNet is not formally involved in the administrator selection process. 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.
Specialists[edit]
Specialists are administrators who are given a limited number of administrative tools. They may delete pages, undelete pages, block only bot accounts and edit protected pages. They are not permitted to protect pages, block IP addresses, or block user accounts. Specialists are expected to consider all policies before taking any administrative actions. Specialists are not required or expected to provide a publicly reachable e-mail address, or any form of private contact (but may if they wish to do so).
Specialists can be directly selected by any bureaucrat and a request for adminship is not needed. However, a request for adminship may be made to promote a user to the position of specialist, by another user or by the person themselves. If a request for adminship is started to promote a user to the position of specialist, the same rules in promtion of a user to sysop must be used. A specialist can be promoted to the position of sysop at anytime, but a request for adminship must be started in order to do so.
Specialists are appointed for 1 year, but a reconformation may be created to extend the time. Specialists may resign at anytime. Their status as a specialist may also be formally examined by the Arbitration committee. In addition, a reconformation can be made to strip the rights of a specialist.
For a complete list of specialists, see Special:Listadmins/specialist.
To start a new nomination, see Guild Wars 2 Wiki:Requests for adminship.
Sysops[edit]
Sysops are administrators who perform cleanup tasks (deleting pages, undoing page move vandalism) and can block accounts and IP addresses according to the rules of the Guild Wars 2 Wiki policy. Sysops also protect critical or unusually contentious pages from editing. Sysops are granted reasonable discretion, but they are expected to apply policy rigorously and respect consensus. Sysops are expected (but not required) to provide a publicly reachable e-mail address or other means of private contact.
Sysops are selected by a review process based on nominations. New nominations may be made by any contributor in good standing, and nominators may nominate any contributor in good standing, including themselves. The nomination is reviewed for a fixed period of time, after which a bureaucrat will assess the community consensus and appoint the nominee if the consensus is in favor. If the user is promoted to sysop and was previously a specialist, the title of specialist is removed and replaced by the title of sysop.
Sysops are appointed for life, but may voluntarily resign. Their status may also be formally examined by the Arbitration committee. If a sysop is inactive for more than three months they should be automatically put up for a reconformation. In addition, a normal reconformation can be made to strip a user of there sysop rights.
For a complete list of sysops, see Special:Listadmins/sysop.
To start a new nomination, see Guild Wars 2 Wiki:Requests for adminship.
Bureaucrats[edit]
Bureaucrats have the power to appoint or revoke the administrative status of users based on community decisions. They also have the abilty to directly, and instantly promote a user to the position of specialist. 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 2 Wiki of user conduct (but not content decisions), including that of administrators.
The group of bureaucrats is mutually exclusive from the group of sysops and specialists -- any status as sysop or specialist is temporarily revoked while appointed as a bureaucrat.1 Bureaucrats have some extra user rights, such as editing protected pages and viewing deleted pages, but are forbidden from executing page deletions/undeletions or user blocks/unblocks (although they may unblock their own account for arbitration purposes if necessary). While ArbComm injunctions and rulings may involve those, the enforcement of such is left to sysops and/or specialists. Any revoked sysop or specialist 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 and specialists. 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 one bureaucrat 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 bureaucrat 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/her seat during an arbitration, he/she 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/she 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:Xeeron (wiki -youknownwhatgoeshere- xeeron.de)
- Term: ...
- User:LordBiro (...)
- Term: ...
- User:Dirigible (...)
- Term: ...
1 The current wiki configuration requires sysophood for some rights that bureaucrats should have. Until this is changed, accounts for bureaucrats should retain the sysop tag in the database purely as a technical workaround.
