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 some of 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. There will be a maximum of ten administrators.

Admins are granted with additional abilities. But these powers may 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.

Current Administrators

 * User: Iankevinsevilla (2011-present)
 * User: Ckarimalis (2011-present)
 * User: InSpeck (2011-present)
 * User: Reddude (2011-present)
 * User:Whoisrob (2012-present)
 * User:SurvivorHuey (2012-present)
 * User:SummerinGanymede (2012-present)

Former Administrators

 * User:Cscin3d (2007-2012)
 * User:Quiddity99 (2007-2012)
 * User:Quack-Wabbit (2007-2012)
 * User:Andytw710 (2007-2012)
 * User:Beatles20147 ( Wiki Founder ; 2007-2012)
 * User: Whitestorm17 (2011-2012)

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 Forum:Tribal Council.

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 by leaving a message to a bureaucrat's message wall. 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 aforementioned activity guidelines. Consideration will begin from when any leaves of absence were meant to finish. If there is dispute for any reason, the community will have a say if the administrator in question should be retained in the said position. In any case of revocation of administrator rights, the the former admin will be reverted back to a rollback.

To be an administrator
To become an administrator, a user must be:
 * A user with Rollback rights
 * A registered user with historically strong contributions
 * A trusted user in the Survivor Wiki community
 * A user with no history of being blocked for serious reasons (e.g. vandalism and spamming)

To nominate and vote a user to be administrator

 * Registered users with more than 50 edits and must be a regular editor for a month.
 * Registered users who have not fulfilled the aforementioned condition must finish it before his or her vote to be counted.
 * Though a current admin or bureaucrat may vote, it does not give any favor to any who receives their blessing.

Stage 1: Nominations
Nominations will be open for a week and testimonials will be placed below this page. The opening of this page for edits will be informed in our community message corner. Ineligible users will not be entertained and their edits here will be deleted. Furthermore, users (unregistered or otherwise) who will attempt to vandalize this page will be immediately blocked from the site for one year. All nominations, confirmation letters and ballots must end with a "signature," which can be done by typing four consecutive tildes ("~"). Messages without signatures will be considered null and void. Furthermore, All nominations must start with, with the nominee be placed at the parameter. For example, if a user nominates User:Iankevinsevilla, the nomination letter must start with.
 * 1) After this page is reopened for editing, administrator aspirants may either nominate themselves, or be nominated by eligible voters. The nominator should give a testimonial below this page about his nominee's accomplishments as an admin, and why the candidate deserves to achieve administrator rights (in 100 words or less).
 * 2) If the candidate was nominated by another user, the candidate must accept the nomination by placing his or her confirmation letter under the message of the nominator. A candidate may also reject the nomination and must still place his reply below. If a user nominates oneself, this step is obviously skipped. Once nominated, the user in question may campaign using his or her profile page.
 * 3) Once the candidate confirms his candidacy, he or she will be undergoing an online interview that will also be held below this page. For a week, bureaucrats, administrators and eligible voters may ask the candidates various questions. The candidate reserves the right to not reply in any question. If a candidate fails to answer any question by the end of the week, he or she will be disqualified.
 * 4) By the end of the week, nominations and interviews will be closed, and this page will be open for editing to give way to the voting process.
 * 5) Any queries should be relayed to the current administrators' message walls, not here. Placing irrelevant writings in this will be considered as vandalism. This is considered to be one of the most sacred pages of the wiki and must be taken seriously.
 * 6) Once the election is over, any activity written below this page will be archived and this page will be locked again until the next election.

Stage 2: Voting

 * 1) Below this page will be dedicated to the votes. Users will have to put either ,   or   -- following a brief reason behind the voter's decision, and must place a signature (by typing four tildes or "~") to authenticate the vote. Users may only vote once per election. Flying voters will be considered as vandals.
 * 2)  Voting ends after one week.
 * 3)  Current bureaucrats and administrators may vote, but that does not give advantage to anyone.

Stage 3: Resolution

 * 1) Bureaucrats will check if the voters' arguments are strong enough to promote them become administrators. The nominee who will get the strongest support and least to zero opposition (including "neutral" votes) would be promoted to administrator status. This mechanism achieves the "consensus" a wiki should have.
 * 2)  The new administrator will be notified via message wall and community message, introducing him or her to the Survivor Wiki community.
 * 3)  If a nominee still wishes to become administrator, he or she may still apply for the next election.

Nominations
Nominations for wiki administrator is closed.

The reason why I'd like to progress further within the wiki is that I enjoy visiting, contributing towards overlooked and somewhat dead pages and debating within the community when it comes to episodes, castaways and in the blogs. I've worked my way up the top twenty list to a respectable position, my continuous strong edits coupled with my drive to improve the standards of the wiki has been noticed additionally (the spoiler template) Ultimately, I want to help and make this site accessible, easy to understand and a tool that everybody can use as their first source of information. WHOis ROB  19:15, March 15, 2012 (UTC)

I have worked hard on his wiki, reaching #3 on this wiki. I have updated the Survivor: One World page during the episode. I have created the new episode pages and added the press image to the page. I have fun at this wiki while working to keep this wiki up to date. I help bring the pages up to date adding many pages at the same time. If I become an Admin, it would be a huge honor. Thank You!

Nobo 19:52, March 16, 2012 (UTC)

Question and Answer
''To both nominees, what will you do if your personal life catches up on you (let's say work or an school exam), how will be your time management in case you become admin? '' iankevinsevilla 12:11, March 19, 2012 (UTC)
 * Whilst the interests of the wiki would be a primary concern, personal life will always come first. That being said, my time management is meticulous in that time spent between the wikia and outside concerns would be easy to uphold, I've always believed that if you're entrusted with something and you can handle it, why not do it. I did not plan on applying for an administrator role if I didn't have the time and patience needed to fulfil the duty. In the spirit of the question however, if I were to be caught up with other plans - I typically give 48 hours notice and try to update at least once during the period be it through a blog and/or update on a page. I hope the answer covers what you asked and I'm happy to elaborate further if needed. WHOis ROB  12:44, March 19, 2012 (UTC)


 * My personal life does come first always. Religion, family, then Survivor. But my personal time has increased since sports have ended. If it does, I will give notice to the other admins and try my hardest to get back to the wikia ASAP. I believe that you should work hard for the place that you hold even though its tough. Thanks and I hope I answered you question. Thank you.
 * Nobo 15:11, March 19, 2012 (UTC)

''Once you become an administrator, what would be your specialization? We actually do not require you to have one, but you have to be better at somehwere (like, uploading photos, writeups, vandal spotting etc.). Aside from dead pages needed to be filled with write-ups, what does the wiki need as of the moment?'' iankevinsevilla  15:55, March 19, 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm enjoying specialising in the gameplay category, I'm taking my time researching the Medallion of Power, Hidden Immunity Idol etc and making them a factual source of information. Vandalism would come secondary as my current status as a rollback can easily rectify any prejudiced comments -- then focusing on making every page feel like it's been taken care of with pictures, descriptions and links to other pages. The one thing the wiki needs are more new contributors, push the importance of signing up and more focus on creating rollbacks that can act as mentors for these people. As I said in other blog posts, you do recognise the same 5-6 people putting the hard work in and I think that if something is built, maintained and people are given the chance to be trusted then more input will be made. A lot of people will solely rely on those 5-6 people to update this wiki when it should be everybody. WHOis ROB  16:26, March 19, 2012 (UTC)

Well this wiki does need writeups very well. I do updates on the wiki during the episode so that could be one specialization. But probably uploading pictures. This wikia needs pictures from past episodes. I have updated early episodes with pictures from Africa to Pearl Islands. Pictures help describe the episode and the season at the same time. But also we need to update the dead pages and add them to categorys. I hope I have answered your question. Thank you.Nobo 16:24, March 19, 2012 (UTC)

''What does administratorship mean to you? What does it take to be a good wiki Administrator? '' iankevinsevilla 13:22, March 20, 2012 (UTC)
 * Being an administrator is more than the flash cars, fast women and dollar dollar bills. It's about being recognised for your time and effort and knowing that you're ready to progress and be able to maintain the rules and format that the wiki upholds. To be an administrator you need to look at the whole picture and by that I mean both sides of a conflict, how to come to a rational conclusion that will satisfy both parties. You must be lenient, but authoritive when the need calls for it and most importantly, you need to be accessible to the target audience and how you can make the site more interactive.


 * Thanks for the Question, Ian. WHOis ROB  13:55, March 20, 2012 (UTC)


 * To me an administrator means that I can do my part on this wiki. I can help other users and other admins. It also means that I have done my share and proved that I can be an admin. Being an admin means that you have a greater responibility on this wikia. You have to put more time into it and also help others at the same time. I can be what an admin needs to be. I hope I have answered you question. Thank you.
 * Nobo 19:21, March 20, 2012 (UTC)

Voting
Voting is now open!

Votes for User:Whoisrob
I have seen your efforts in the past few weeks. Barely we had a user who did such substantial edits. Not that I dislike Nobo's contributions. Though both of you guys are strong contributors of the wiki, but I felt Whoisrob is stronger. He deals with the rude nonies with class, he makes solid suggestions to me whenever he needs to. He seems to be the natural leader we needed here in the wiki. No hard feelings whatsoever for Nobo, it's just not your time yet. You may still apply next month, and good luck to both of you guys. I appreciate your efforts in helping me revive the wiki form shambles. I Am Nothing. 14:54, March 22, 2012 (UTC)

I have seen you on the wikia more. i feel like you would make a good admin. Good luck :) Henzzy 25-3-2012