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.

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
 * Has no history of being blocked due to 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.

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.
 * 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.
 * 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, current 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 write either "Support," "Oppose," or "Neutral" -- following a brief reason behind the voter's decision, and must place a signature (by typing four tildes or "~") to authenticate the vote. Flying voters will be considered as vandals.
 * 2)  Voting ends after one week.

Stage 3: Resolution

 * 1) Current administrators 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. I should be noted that t his would be a more tedious process than promoting a user to be admin, since being a administrator is permanent. The new administrator will be notified via message wall and community message, introducing him or her to the Survivor Wiki community.