Survivor Wiki:Administrators

Administrators ("admins" for short) are trusted users of the Survivor Wiki, who have been granted exclusive access to special tools that could help in maintaining the Wiki. They are a small team of editors who are considered to be the most trustworthy and responsible users known in the community.

Users who have queries about the wiki often approach Administrators. Admins provide good pieces of advice and can tremendously help in reaching a consensus during discussions. But despite their additional capabilities, admins are not serving as leaders who govern the wiki under an iron fist, as content and policies are to be agreed by the whole community.

Admins are granted with additional abilities. But these powers can only be exercised if a consensus has been reached:
 * Ability to delete pages, files and page histories
 * Renaming files and articles
 * "Protect" articles from being edited nor renamed
 * Block users and IP addresses from editing
 * Reverting an article to a previous edit
 * Edit the MediaWiki namespace to make changes to the interface.

Responsibilities
Administrators must regularly do the following:
 * Check articles that may have vandalized/plagiarized parts or spam and revert them
 * Mark pages with  when necessary
 * Delete pages if the consensus agreed the article is unneeded
 * Protect pages form being edited
 * Block deserving users
 * Routinely check the Survivor Wiki: Tribal Council for queries sent by users

Administrator Etiquette
Administrators are expected to support the goal of the wiki to be a comprehensive online source for Survivor. With this, Administrators are entrusted to do (and not do) the following:
 * Administrators should not utilize admin-exclusive tools without reaching a consensus with the users. The administrator should not abuse his power over the wiki's content and policies. However, Administrators reserve the right to block any user who will be caught vandalizing or intimidating other users. They may also delete pages that are not related to Survivor.
 * As administrators, they are to respect opinions of others. Admins do not own the site.
 * Any breach of these conditions are grounds for removal of administration rights after a community discussion.

Inactivity
To keep their administration rights, administrators should remain active in the wiki where they have administration rights. An "active" status is defined as:
 * Delivering consistent and substantial contributions several days a month. This does not include modifying user space pages, or correcting spelling/grammar/formatting.
 * Reasonably quick in replying to user message walls.
 * Should an administrator be unable to fulfill his or her duties as an administrator, they must file a leave of absence. One leave of absence is valid up to two months.
 * If an administrator continues to be inactive for a prolonged period of time, removal of user rights will be considered by an active bureaucrat based on the non-fulfillment of the activity guidelines further above. Consideration will begin from when any leaves of absence were meant to finish. Where removal may be contentious, an active bureaucrat should also consult other community members before revoking user rights.