Site Staff
Call us... the production crew of this wiki.
We plan on holding elections for the below staff roles soon. For now, you can review the requirements and expected responsibilities for each role if you are considering applying. Stay tuned!
Moderator is the lowest tier of site staff. However, they do have access to a few additional powers to combat vandalism.
Scope
Moderators may do the following:
- Approve good edits and promote good-faith users to Writer
- Block users for up to 2 months
- They are not allowed, however, to revoke talk page access, so all users can appeal their ban. In the case of a sockpuppet or vandal, a Moderator can exercise a 2-month block to stop the sock from vandalising the site, and then an Admin or Bureaucrat can follow up with a more permanent block.
- Issue warnings (including strong warnings)
- Restore and delete pages and files
Appointment and revocation
Eligibility
- You must have at least 250 edits and they must be in good faith.
- You must not have been strongly warned within the last 3 months or tempblocked within the last 6 months.
- You should show a keen interest in the site and willingness to get involved with the community.
- You should show evidence of helping out the Admin team in the past. This includes reporting users and alerting Admins, but it does not require you to have done any rollbacks in the past.
- Actions users have taken on AVID's official Discord server and wiki will also be taken into account when considering users for Moderator here.
Election
To request to become a moderator, please go to OSCA:Requests for Permission.
Once a vote is open, it must remain open for a minimum of 1 month and achieve a 70% support ratio in order for it to be called as successful.
Revocation
- By precedent and convention, moderators may have their rights revoked by a simple majority vote which takes place in the Requests for Revocation section of the Requests for Permissions page.
- A light infringement of the rules severe enough to warrant a temporary demotion will have their demotion period determined by a Bureaucrat
- Users permanently demoted will not be able to apply for Moderator again for 3 months. They will not be allowed to apply for Admin until they have proved themselves again as Moderators.
The Opening Sequences & Closings Archive is led by a team of administrators, whose job is to maintain the wiki's activity and ensure protection from unwanted edits.
Scope
Administrators should use their powers to combat vandalism/spam, and keep the wiki running in an orderly manner. Administrators have access to many additional functions which include:
- Manage pages and files on the wiki, such as deleting and protecting
- Change visibility of undesirable revisions of pages
- Respond to user reports by warning or reminding users
- Block users from editing pages; admins also have the option to "roll back" a number of edits from that user on a certain page
- Modify system messages via Special:AllMessages
- Close Requests for Comment prematurely given criteria listed in the landing page is met
Appointment and revocation
Eligibility
While there is no codified eligibility requirements, bureaucrats have guidelines set at OSCA:Requests for Permission on who is generally determined as eligible for Permissions.
Election
To request to become an administrator, please go to OSCA:Requests for Permission.
Once a vote is open, it must remain open for a minimum of 1 month and achieve a 70% support ratio in order for it to be called as successful.
Revocation
By precedent and convention, administrators may have their rights revoked by a simple majority vote which takes place in the Requests for Revocation section of the Requests for Permissions page.
Bureaucrats are users with advanced permissions beyond that of a typical administrator. They have the ability to add or revoke administrative tools and access to wiki configuration options via Special:ManageWiki.
Bureaucrats for this wiki are listed below.
Scope
The role of bureaucrats are as follows:
- Determine consensus on RFCs and forum posts pertaining to wiki decisions.
- Decide and carry out the outcome of requests at OSCA:Requests for Permission.
- Remove the admin rights of any user determined by the community to be unfit to have such tools.
Appointment and revocation
Election
Users can request bureaucrat rights at OSCA:Requests for Permission subject to the edit requirements denoted there. Requests for bureaucrat rights will remain open for 7 days and those applying must have an 80% support ratio.
Revocation
Bureaucrat rights can be revoked if a Request for Revocation is opened and more than 50% of the vote is in favor of removal. They will also be removed if the user's administrative powers are removed at any time either by community vote or voluntary resignation.
See also
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