Amphibia Wiki:Staff

The staff are users who have access to various additional site features to provide support and resources to the community, in addition to overseeing the care of the site.

Bureaucrat
Bureaucrats are one level "up" from administrators. They are senior editors, who help with the day-to-day administration of the wiki by establishing the wiki rules and managing user rights.

Bureaucrats are given the ability to:
 * Grant bureaucrat rights and revoke own bureaucrat rights.
 * Grant and revoke user rights.
 * Along with the administrator rights, has all administrative responsibilities.

This wiki's main bureaucrat is RedBallFire.

Administrator
Administrators (also known as sysops) are primary enforcers of the wiki's rules, help keep the wiki clear of vandalism, spam, and users who make malicious edits. They have a number of tools to aid them in this task and keep the wiki running smoothly and deal with issues facing the wiki. They are trusted editors. Ideally, an admin shouldn't be considered "in charge". The ideal admin is just someone who is trusted to have a few extra buttons and to use them for the benefit of the Wikia community.

Administrators are given the ability to:
 * Block and unblock users or ip addresses.
 * Edit and rename blog posts.
 * Delete and move user pages.
 * Has all moderator and rollback rights.
 * Edit MediaWiki pages and access other admin restricted special pages (such as system messages).
 * Edit wiki's interface, skin, and format.

Content Moderator
Content Moderators are equipped with special tools to help them moderate specific content parts of the wiki. They keep articles on the wiki safe from vandalism, spam, and other rule violations.

Content Moderators are given the ability to:
 * Rollback "undesirable" edits in one click.
 * Move (rename) pages.
 * Delete and undelete pages and blogs.
 * Protect (lock) and edit protected pages.
 * Move, delete, and undelete uploaded files.
 * Mark edits as patrolled.

Discussions Moderator
Discussions moderators are responsible for activity in all discussion threads and comments. They keep discussion and comments safe from vandalism, spam, and other rule violations.

Discussions Moderators are given the ability to:
 * Editing and deleting article comments.
 * Delete blog comments.
 * Moderate discussions: move, edit, lock, unlock, delete, and restore discussion posts.
 * Edit, close, re-open, remove, restore, and delete threads or replies.
 * Highlight discussion posts and/or blog posts in Announcements.

Rollback
Rollbacks are well trusted editors with the rollback tool to help the wiki combat spam and vandalism.

Rollbacks are given the ability to:
 * Undo edits with one click using the rollback tool.

Froggy Designer
Froggy Designers are users in charge of the design of the community, making renders, backgrounds, graphics, etc.

Froggy Designers

 * Froggy Designers are generally expected to meet the following standards:
 * Have made at least 4 designs for the community. (render, bg, graphics, etc.)
 * Fairly active.
 * 100+ edits.
 * 1+ months on our community.
 * Account over 5 months of age.
 * Knowledge of our images and videos guidelines.
 * Some edits on our articles is preferred.

Rollbacks

 * Rollbacks are generally expected to meet the following standards:
 * 300+ edits.
 * 3+ months of activity.
 * Account over 5 months of age.
 * Fairly active.
 * Have no records of spam/vandalism or being blocked within the past month.
 * Consistent, good-faith article (main-space) edits.
 * Knowledge and experience using Recent Changes or getting familiar with it soon after hire.

Discussions Moderators

 * Discussions Moderators are generally expected to meet the following standards:
 * Fairly active, especially in our Discussions.
 * 100+ edits.
 * 1+ months on our community.
 * Account over 5 months of age.
 * Knowledge of our rules and regulations.
 * Some edits on our articles is preferred.
 * Prior experience modding for other wikis is a plus.

Content Moderators
Your position on our Leaderboard is not an important factor for your eligibility, but can be a good indicator of consistency with the rest of the requirements.


 * Content Moderators are generally expected to meet the following standards:
 * 700+ edits.
 * 4+ months of activity.
 * Account over 5 months of age.
 * Fairly active.
 * Knowledge of our rules and regulations.
 * Knowledge of editing articles and templates.
 * Some knowledge of wikitext.
 * Experience using the classic editor (on "source" mode) is preferred.
 * Knowledge and experience using Recent Changes or getting familiar with it soon after hire.
 * Knowledge of our wiki's basic category structure.
 * Have no records of vandalism or being blocked within the past 2 months.

Administrators
Not everyone can become an admin. Please understand that this wiki only needs enough admins at any given time to handle basic administrative tasks such as deleting articles and blocking disruptive users. Your history on other wikis will be taken into account at the time of application.


 * Administrators are generally expected to meet the following standards:
 * 1,000+ edits.
 * 5+ months of activity.
 * Account over 6 months of age.
 * Extremely active.
 * Experience in resolving edit and social conflicts.
 * Willingness to assist users who request it and respond in a courteous manner.
 * Knowledge of wikitext.
 * Experience using the classic editor (on "source" mode).
 * Knowledge and experience using Recent Changes or getting familiar with it soon after hire.
 * Knowledge of our wiki's basic category structure.
 * At least marginal activity on our community outlets (Discord/Discussions), and an interest in our wiki's community at large.
 * Have no records of vandalism or being blocked within the past 3 months with no previous block lasting more than 1 week.

Bureaucrats
This is solely determined by the existing bureaucrats and administrators. For becoming a bureaucrat, it takes much experience and devotion as well as an admin position. The wiki is currently not seeking more bureaucrats at this time.


 * Bureaucrats are generally expected to meet the following standards:
 * Only acting Administrators are eligible to be promoted.
 * Must be a member of the wiki for at least a year.
 * Extremely active.
 * Have no records of vandalism or being blocked within the past 3 months with no previous block lasting more than 1 week.
 * Willingness to assist users who request it and respond in a courteous manner.

Inactivity and Demotions
After prolonged periods of inactivity (between 3 and 6 months), staff members may be demoted from their positions without notice or receive a notice that they may be demoted; if they resume their wiki activity regularly, they may be allowed to return to their positions.

Staff members are regarded as trusted editors, so if a staff member presents irresponsible behavior or violates the wiki's rules, a demotion may be considered depending on the violation and its severity. Members demoted for rule violations and/or irresponsible behavior will need to wait some time before re-applying for their position and prove to the administration that they have improved their behavior.

Staff members can resign from their positions, or request to be demoted to a lower position, if they wish.