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==Administrator Powers...ACTIVATE!== | ==Administrator Powers...ACTIVATE!== | ||
Congratulations! You've just been made an staff member on the wiki! Perhaps you're a moderator, able to temper and fine-tune pages. Or maybe an administrator, with the almighty power to lock and ban. You can feel the power rising within you...you cackle madly, raising your hands in victory, thunder and lighting crashing... | Congratulations! You've just been made an staff member on the wiki! Perhaps you're a moderator, able to temper and fine-tune pages. Or maybe an administrator, with the almighty power to lock and ban. You can feel the power rising within you...you cackle madly, raising your hands in victory, thunder and lighting crashing... | ||
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===Staff Member: a Definition=== | ===Staff Member: a Definition=== | ||
''<u>Staff member</u>: n. A wiki editor who has proven themselves, through time and talent, to be worthy of the use of special tools and abilities on a wiki.'' | |||
''<u>Staff member</u>: n. | |||
Look carefully up there at that basic definition, especially one key word: editor. That's right, in spite of all your nifty new widgets, you are still, first and foremost, a wiki editor. Plain and simple. | Look carefully up there at that basic definition, especially one key word: editor. That's right, in spite of all your nifty new widgets, you are still, first and foremost, a wiki editor. Plain and simple. | ||
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*Judges: Staff members should always encourage quality edits, as the idea of a wiki is to have a decent resource that anyone can edit. They should not put down other editors, however, because their edits do not meet some sort of unreasonable or unreachable standard. Asking a user to improve grammar is one thing; putting them down or threatening to ban them because of they disagree with the edit is not. | *Judges: Staff members should always encourage quality edits, as the idea of a wiki is to have a decent resource that anyone can edit. They should not put down other editors, however, because their edits do not meet some sort of unreasonable or unreachable standard. Asking a user to improve grammar is one thing; putting them down or threatening to ban them because of they disagree with the edit is not. | ||
*Owners: Staff members do not own a wiki. They cannot exclusively control everything goes into it. They cannot pick and choose who and what works for them. Everyone should have free access to the wiki, including those who operate differently from a staff member's ideal. | *Owners: Staff members do not own a wiki. They cannot exclusively control everything that goes into it. They cannot pick and choose who and what works for them. Everyone should have free access to the wiki, including those who operate differently from a staff member's ideal. | ||
*Punishers: Staff members should not use their tools to punish users for the slightest transgression by banning, blocking, or reverting. That's a blatant abuse of the tools they've been granted, and is just asking to get them revoked. | *Punishers: Staff members should not use their tools to punish users for the slightest transgression by banning, blocking, or reverting. That's a blatant abuse of the tools they've been granted, and is just asking to get them revoked. | ||
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Some staff members, unsure of their roles, may make mistakes, usually along the lines of those above. No one's perfect; as long is the damage is fixed and apologies are made, then it shouldn't be a big deal. However, when a staff member flagrantly does one or all of the above, it may be time to assess their appropriateness in the roll. | Some staff members, unsure of their roles, may make mistakes, usually along the lines of those above. No one's perfect; as long is the damage is fixed and apologies are made, then it shouldn't be a big deal. However, when a staff member flagrantly does one or all of the above, it may be time to assess their appropriateness in the roll. | ||
Next up: [[ | Next up: [[KHWiki:Administrators/Part 2|Tools of the Trade]]. Please see the Discussion page above for further Discussion. | ||