User Rights Requests is a page that gives users who want to become part of the staff team instructions and information on different user rights and how to achieve them.
Administrators and moderators are all local staff members. In order to become one, you must be at least 13 or 16 years old or older, as per the terms of use. Please remember that promotions are a privilege, not a right.
Demotions: If a user abuses their role or breaks the wiki's rules and policies, they may be demoted.
Roles
Roles a user can be promoted to:
- Rollback
- Content Moderator
- Thread Moderator
- Administrator
- Bureaucrat
What does each role do?
Roles descriptions are pulled from here.
Rollback
- Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page
(rollback) - Remove group from own account: rollback
Content Moderator
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Thread Moderator
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Administrator
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Bureaucrat
- Block other users from editing
(block) - Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks
(ipblock-exempt) - Unblock oneself
(unblockself) - Add groups: content-moderator, rollback, Administrators and Bureaucrats
- Remove groups: content-moderator, rollback, Administrators and Bots
- Remove group from own account: Bureaucrats
Who is not eligible
- Users who have been warned/blocked several times for repeated behavior (spamming, causing drama, being rude to others, etc.) and have shown no signs of improvement.
- Users who have been demoted for abusing their role and have shown no signs of improvement.
- Ban evaders
- Users with inappropriate usernames/bios
Ways to be promoted
Bureaucrat/User reaches out
If the community is not super active and a bureaucrat needs help for whatever reason, they may reach out and offer you a promotion. The bureaucrat may grant you temporary rights, and if after the 30-day trial you still want to have that role, you can reach out to the bureaucrat and request permanent rights. If that bureaucrat approves the request, your rights will become permanent.
If a user meets the requirements of a role and the wiki isn't active, that user can ask to be promoted by a bureaucrat. The bureaucrat may grant you temporary rights, and if after the 30-day trial you still want to have that role, you can reach out to the bureaucrat and request permanent rights. If that bureaucrat approves the request, your rights will become permanent.
Nomination Request
If the wiki needs a new moderator, and the admin team deems it necessary, nominations will be set up. After a week, whoever has the most votes may be approved by the admin team based on the general requirements set up on the wiki. The community will be allowed to discuss the recommendation via discussions (if it is enabled), a talk page, or another method that fits your community, as long as it is easy to find.
Rules for nomination
- Any user can recommend another user.
- For the process to be fair, you can't ask your friends on other wikis to come to this wiki to nominate you if your friends are not already active on this wiki.
- Users who have been previously blocked may be automatically rejected for consideration.
- The user nominated has to fulfill, or be close to fulfilling the requirements.
- Don't only oppose/support someone because you do/don't like them. You should only support/oppose someone based on their skills. Be respectful.
- When nominating someone, use a sentence like, "I nominate [insert username] because [reason]."
Tie?
In the event that several users (more than two) receive the same amount of votes, meaning that there are more elected users than there are available positions, a second request is filled out to narrow down the candidates. Candidates will send this filled-out form to an admin, and the admin will make a blog or post with all of the candidates forms.
- Title of message to admin: Request: [Role Name]
- Username: [Username]
- Pronouns: [pronouns]
- Applying for: [role name]
- Number of edits: [number]
- Active: [time you have been active on the wiki]
- You should pick me and here's why: [summary of the reason why you should be picked. If you are a rollback/mod applying for another mod right, mention what you've achieved as that rollback/mod]
After a candidate has been chosen, they will be granted temporary rights. The new moderator/rollback/administrator will be given a 30-day trial to see how well they operate with their new tools. After a month, they can reach out to the admin who gave them the rights and request permanent rights, and if the admin approves, those rights will become permanent.
Requirements for
For the editing requirements, if you edit-farm (spam repetitive and unhelpful edits solely to artificially inflate your edit count), you may become ineligible for all positions.
Rollback
- Read and follow all of the rules and policies.
- You must be active on the wiki for 2 months or more to be eligible.
- You must have at least 300 edits. This is to demonstrate your knowledge of the topics this wiki is about and your dedication to it for this level of rights.
- Knowledge of how pages are formatted
- Some experience using source mode
- If you have prior experience as a mod or admin on another wiki, mention that when applying for this role.
Content Moderator
- Read and follow all of the rules and policies.
- You must be active on the wiki for 3 months or more to be eligible.
- You must have at least 700 edits. This is to demonstrate your knowledge of the topics this wiki is about and your dedication to it for this level of rights.
- Knowledge of how pages are formatted
- Some experience using source mode
- If you have prior experience as a mod or admin on another wiki, mention that when applying for this role.
Thread Moderator
Discussions are not enabled on this wiki, so users are not able to become discussion moderators.
Administrator
- Read and follow all of the rules and policies.
- Must not have been blocked on this wiki for repeated behavior.
- You must be active on the wiki for 6 months or more to be eligible.
- Assisted users who asked for help and displayed kindness to others.
- You must have at least 1200+ edits. This is to demonstrate your knowledge of the topics this wiki is about and your dedication to it for this level of rights.
- Knowledge of how pages are formatted
- Experience using source mode
- If you have prior experience as a mod or admin on another wiki, mention that when applying for this role.
Bureaucrat
- This role can only be applied for if the user already has admin rights
- Same requirements as Administrator
- Must be trusted user
What happens when a staff member is inactive?
If a bureaucrat is going to become inactive, they must pick an administrator to promote to bureaucrat. Bureaucrats must remember that they have to pick someone that they have a lot of trust in, as once the admin they pick is promoted, that admin (and fandom staff) will be the only ones able to remove the bureaucrat right from themselves. If there are no other admins on the wiki and the bureaucrat leaves without promoting someone, any user can adopt the wiki as long as they meet the adoption requirements.
If a staff member displays prolonged inactivity without notice, they may be stripped of their role. Prolonged inactivity is about a month long. If they resume their edits/activity, they can request to have their positions back.
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