Guild Wars 2 Wiki:Adminship 2008-04-22

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The English language Guild Wars 2 Wiki is administered by the community. New administrators are selected by a democratic process in the English language Guild Wars 2 Wiki. There are two levels of adminship: sysop and bureaucrat.

Administration and ArenaNet

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.

Sysops

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 five to seven days, after which a bureaucrat will assess the community consensus and appoint the nominee if the consensus is in favor (note, if more time is needed on an RfA the running user may request it to a bureaucrat; the limit for a RfA is two weeks).

Sysops are appointed for life, but may voluntarily resign. Their status and/or actions may also be formally examined by the Arbitration committee (if this should happen the ArbComm must be open for comments from the community on the ArbComm page and the bureaucrats must keep all comments, from the good standing community in mind).

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

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

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 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. ¹ Bureaucrats have some extra user rights, such as editing protected pages, viewing deleted pages, deleteing/undeleting pages; but are forbidden from executing user blocks/unblocks (although they may unblock their own account for arbitration purposes if necessary). While ArbComm injunctions and rulings may involve user blocks, the enforcement of such is left to sysops. Any revoked sysop rights 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 12 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 be removed by unanimous votes of the other bureaucrats or a community vote.

The current bureaucrats in the Guild Wars 2 Wiki are:

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