Board Thread:Wiki General Discussion/@comment-25407271-20181210214654/@comment-25406802-20181215145443

I do suppose we could have a biannual staff application (every 6 months) to see if there is anyone willing to take staff.

If we do implement this system, we have to be mindful about the existing staff on the site, as it could be very possible that everyone is active and thus we may not need any more staff. The amount of staff there is on this wiki has now bee reduced to a single-digit number, in which contain the staff members who are promising as well as being thoroughly active. Should there be a need for new staff members, I would say we can recruit a maximum of 3 staff per each application call. We don't need too many staff in this wiki otherwise it would actually make things more disorganized.

Needless to say, the application is technically a requirement of its own.

If a user wants to apply for a staff position, they would need to meet some sort of criteria in which they meet the standards so they could possibly a candidate. Staff positions are not given free willingly and would be given to the users who prove to be trustworthy, mature, reliable, open-minded, co-operative, taking initiative, hard working and dedicated without causing any conflicts or nuisance of any sort.

The older requirements had mentioned about the number of edits that a user must have in order to become a certain hierarchy in the staff pyramid. I personally disagree with said rule, and so did Nusdan and Walyd in a Discord discussion. While I do believe that a person willing to be staff should have a reasonable amount of beneficial contributions to the site and nobody should give staff to someone who probably only made 8 edits or somewhere along the line, giving staff by number of edits is like making a bias against quality and preferring quantity.

The requirements for a staff position are debatable, but here is my idea on what a user should have in order to be a candidate for a staff role:


 * Must be 13 years or older (of course, as it is a FANDOM ToS)
 * Should have at least 100-250 edits so it can be clear there is some sort of interest and willingness to contribute here
 * Maintains a positive behavior and is mature
 * Has shown to be capable of making comprehensive edits
 * Can be an asset to the staff team

These are the minimum points I think are needed in terms of criteria for a user to be considered a candidate for a staff member. This is free for discussion and debating, but I think another thread or a different location may deem suitable for this topic.