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CommunityUser Rights grant trusted users extra powers to perform actions on the RoPets Wiki. These additional rights are only granted to users after a well-defined staff consensus process, where a majority of the members of the staff team have to agree. There are three different rights that can be requested by users:
- Content Moderator (user group:
content-moderator) - Discussions Moderator (user group:
thread-moderator) - Rollback (user group:
rollback)
Requirements
There are certain restrictions as to who can request user rights on the RoPets Wiki. The RoPets Wiki currently only maintains a small but efficient staff team as to keep things running smoothly. Users that do not meet the following criteria may not request additional rights.
Note: A user may not request sysop or administrator rights. These are only granted to users that are already staff members and after a proper internal staff consensus.
- Have an autoconfirmed account.
- An account is marked as autoconfirmed 4 days after its creation, i.e., the requestor's account must be at least 4 days old.
- Not have infracted major policies.
- The user must not have had major infractions on the RoPets Wiki in the past 1 month.
- Not be actively violating any policies.
- All members of the staff team, regardless of their rank are expected to abide by the wiki's Policies and guidelines.
- Have a Discord account.
- Discord is mandatory to ensure efficient communication between the staff team.
- Not have a bad reputation amongst wiki users.
- Staff members are looked up to when conflicts arise on the wiki, thus, it is important to make sure that the community supports a user being granted certain rights.
- Be able to fluently communicate with other wiki users.
- Knowing multiple languages is considered a good trait and can improve your chance at getting a role.
There are also some generalized requirements for requesting certain rights, due to these rights being powerful and easily abusable. These requirements are only to be followed by users that request specific rights. Though exceptions can be made, they generally aren't.
- Have demonstrated their ability to edit articles while utilizing wikitext and HTML.
- It is necessary for Content Moderators to be proficient in wikitext and HTML, due to them being one of the first users that are approached by wiki users for editing-related concerns.
- It is also recommended that a user has experience as a Rollback before requesting Content Moderator rights for a higher chance at getting accepted.
- Have been actively participating in or reporting discussion posts.
- Discussions Moderators are assigned to deal with the discussions part of the wiki, and should thus know how it works.
- Have a good amount of experience when it comes to editing.
- Rollbacks are not expected to act as an aid to wiki users needing help, but rather trusted users that have enhanced privileges to deal with unconstructive edits.
Requesting Rights
To request additional rights, the user has to make sure that they are eligible for the rights in accordance with the requirements. User rights can be requested on either an administrator's message wall, or under the Wiki Discussion category in the wiki's discussions area.
- The title must be relevant to the subject.
- It should be in the following format: Rights request: Username
- The rights request must be split into paragraphs. Lists are not allowed.
- This helps in evaluating the requestor's proficiency in English.
- The requestor should mention their Discord username and tag while requesting rights.
- Discord is mandatory to ensure that proper communication is met between all members of the staff team.
- The rights request should contain all relevant information regarding the user's contributions to the wiki.
- The requestor is expected to declare what they would be utilizing their additional rights for.
- Vague declarations, such as "I would like these rights to help the community", are unacceptable.
- Any past experience with design, information technology, wiki editing, and/or moderation should be highlighted.
- If the requestor has no past experience, they would have to mention that.
Rights Consensus
All requests related to the addition of additional user rights on the RoPets Wiki are handled via a staff vote, internally. A typical rights request's consensus would last for 2 weeks (14 days). Any votes not cast by the staff team within the time period would be disregarded.
- To carry out a successful rights request, a user must get support from at least 60% of the members of the staff team that cast their votes.
- If 10 members have voted, the requestor would have to get 6 votes in their support in order to carry out a successful user rights request.
- Votes are cast either in the form of Support (+1), Neutral (0), and Oppose (-1).
- A voter may change their decision at any time during the consensus based on the applicant's activity and general behavior on the wiki.
- If there is a clear conflict between the requestor and the voter, the vote will not be counted.
- This is to prevent bias. The RoPets Wiki aims at being free and fair for all.
- At the end of the 2-week duration, an administrator would reply to the post or the thread with the message acknowledging whether the request has been accepted or not.
Rights Removal
It is sometimes necessary to strip certain users off their additional rights, for a varying number of reasons. These reasons could include inactivity, clear abuse of privileges, constant infractions to the policies and guidelines, unpopularity and hostility towards the community, etc. Generally, if someone needs to be demoted but does not meet the "reasons" criteria, a community consensus must be held (preferably in the Wiki Discussion category of the discussions area), which may be hosted by any wiki user.
Administrators are not allowed to remove rights from another user under their own jurisdiction unless the other user meets the following criteria. Bureaucrats are the highest user group on a wiki and their rights can only be removed by members that have certain global rights, such as Fandom Staff. Thus, even if a bureaucrat meets the following criteria, it is necessary for a community consensus to take place.
- The user decides to abandon their rights or account.
- This includes resignations and long periods of inactivity (over 1 year).
- Rollbacks are a special team on the RoPets Wiki, and are exempt from this criteria.
- The user has shown recurring signs of hostility towards the community and other members of the staff team.
- A staff member that constantly gets into unconstructive arguments with users is unacceptable.
- The user acts immaturely and poorly to situations when they rise.
- Immaturity is not tolerated. Staff members are expected to be respectful.
- The user constantly violates the wiki's policies while being staff, or abuses their rights.
- It is the duty of a staff member to follow the wiki's policies.