WiredWiki:Governance
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This is an official wiki policy. Its contents are considered binding for users of the WiredWiki.
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This page outlines the staff governance structure for prompt and effective administration of this WiredWiki. It is loosely modelled after the staff structure of Bulbapedia's Editorial Board and associated administrative constructs. As this wiki is fairly new, much of the hierarchy is unimplemented and will remain so until there is enough activity to warrant it.
Staff structure
There are five (5) major user groups with staff powers attached to them. Each of them has a "staff glyph" of a specifically-coloured Greek letter associated with it; this will show up next to the usernames of such users in places like the RC log. For consistency's sake, bots are counted among this, but they are not staff in the usual sense because they are not humans. For completeness' sake, autoconfirmed users are listed as well, and although they have additional editing capabilities, they are also not staff.
| Position | Description | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Webmaster | ξ | Chief policymaker, wiki webmaster, website sysadmin, hosting provider liasion | |||||||||||||||||
| Editor-in-Chief | ζ | Policymaker, webmaster liasion, media liasion, editorial board chief, staff elector | |||||||||||||||||
| Bureaucrat | β | Policymaker, editorial board member, staff elector | |||||||||||||||||
| Administrator | α | Empowered editor | |||||||||||||||||
| Bot | π | Robot for automating wiki tasks | |||||||||||||||||
| Autoconfirmed user | Users who have made enough edits to have full editing privileges | ||||||||||||||||||
Editorial board
The WiredWiki intends to facilitate a fully-staffed editorial board, comprised of twelve (12) editorial board members and headed by an editor-in-chief, or EiC. For the sake of pragmatism, the only bureaucrats will be board members, so that one's status as a bureaucrat implies editorial board membership.
For the time being, the webmaster is the acting EiC, and will continue to remain so until the wiki has fully matured. Once the wiki has a sufficiently-populated staff body and a desirable successor, the webmaster will hand over the reigns to the new proper EiC.
Elections
Editorial board members hold their positions indefinitely, until they either die, retire, are fired, or put on a demoted leave of absence. In the event a seat is vacated, it may be filled by one or more board members nominating a sysop for promotion. When this happens, a vote is called among all existing board members, including the editor-in-chief. A simple majority decides whether promotion goes through. If the votes are split 50-50, as may be the case with an 11-member board + the editor-in-chief, the EiC's vote serves as the tie-breaker.
Administrators
Administrators, also known as sysops or janitors, possess more powerful editing abilities, such as the power to move and delete pages, suppress redirects, move and delete files, reupload new revisions of files, edit protected pages, protect pages, issue account blocks, execute rollbacks, and more. Their role on the wiki is not bureaucratic, as they have no influence or vote in decisions for staff promotions or demotions, wiki policy changes, or other site changes.
