Staff members are users with additional tools to help manage the wiki. There are two primary staff groups, moderators and administrators. The designated moderator group combines the rights of both content moderator and discussions moderator. Moderators are responsible and trustworthy helpers who possess the ability to manage pages and files using move, protect, delete and undelete functions. They also possess moderation tools and analytics for managing Discussions. Administrators are intuitive leaders and wiki caretakers who, in addition to possessing moderator abilities, also possess the ability to modify the rights of and block other users as well as edit MediaWiki (system) pages. All staff members should be committed to improving the wiki's content and supporting its community to the best of their ability.
Staff responsibilities
There are many tasks that a staff member must be prepared to undertake, which may include but is not limited to:
- Being knowledgeable about both the wiki's subject and editing on wikis.
- Monitoring pages, reverting counterproductive edits and the incorrect use of files.
- Contributing towards page quality and content, additionally designing and implementing templates as navigation and structural components.
- Carrying out maintenance tasks involving the correction of links, applying categories and updating files with improved versions.
- Maintaining system pages.
- Communicating updates and wiki objectives to the community.
- Managing Discussions, resolving disputes and addressing misconduct.
- Helping others in a friendly and respectful manner.
Becoming a staff member
If numbers are sufficient, new staff members will not be actively sought. If there is a commonly recognised benefit in increasing staff numbers, users will be considered based on a broad combination of notably influential personal attributes. Regular users may be considered for a promotion to the position of moderator. Existing moderators may be considered for a promotion to the position of administrator. Administrators may be considered for a promotion to the position of a bureaucrat, whose sole ability is to promote new administrators and bureaucrats and is therefore generally reserved for one or two longtime serving administrators.