This Wiki's staff consists of five groups: Bureaucrats, Administrators, Content Moderators, Thread Moderators, and Rollbacks.
- Bureaucrats have the same jobs and abilities as an administrator, along with the ability to promote users to staff groups.
- Administrators have the abilities of content moderators and Thread moderators, while also having additional rights of being able to block or ban users and edit the wiki interface.
- Content Moderators are users who can delete/revive pages and edit locked pages, as well as having the rights of rollbackers and some rights of discussions moderators.
- Thread Moderators are users who have the ability to delete or lock discussion Threads, comments, and message wall posts.
- Rollbacks are users who are given the rollback right which allows them to revert edits by a user.
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Current staff
Below is a complete list of this Wiki's current staff team.
Bureaucrats
ChooChooPaul
Administrators
BoatGuy456
Anton Castillo
Content Moderators
None
Thread Moderators
None
Rollbacks
None
Wiki Representative
A wiki representative is a self explanatory title, they are Fandom staff who represent thier Wikis. A wiki representative isn't really a staff member on a Wiki, and is more of a Fandom staff member, who keeps the admins informed on what's going on Fandom, as well as if the wiki is meeting standards. Here are this Wiki's current wiki representative: None
Staff information
None
Amount of staff
The required amount of staff varies for each user groups, and can occasionally change. Here is how many users can be staff at a time for each user groups:
Bureaucrats = 1-2
Administrators = 1-2
Content Moderators = 1-2
Thread Moderators = 1-2
Rollbacks = 1-2
Bureaucrats roles
Bureaucrat rights are the highest rights you can get on Wikitubia. Bureaucrats have all the user rights of an administrator with the addition of being able to promote users to rollbacks, Thread moderators, content moderators, administrators, and bureaucrats. Since bureaucrat rights are the highest ranking rights, the amount of people being able to be one is very limited, but in order to become one, you must be the best, most active, and responsible administrator who is an exceptional editor on Community Central.
Bureaucrat vacancy process, When a vacancy occurs for the bureaucrat position, either by a bureaucrat resigning or being removed, there will be a vote process to determine the new bureaucrat.
This process begins after the leaving bureaucrat expresses that they will be retiring ahead of time, so that a predecessor could be chosen before they do retire, or, if a bureaucrat leaves, is demoted or is removed without time to have their predecessor chosen beforehand.
The first step of this process is that as soon as possible after, all administrators will be contacted about becoming a candidate for being the new bureaucrat, and will have 24 hours after receiving the message to declare their candidacy. If they do not become a candidate before the day is up, they will not be included in the vote.
After the day for becoming a candidate is over, a vote between all the candidates will be held on the Wikitubia Discord, for wiki staff on the server to vote in, as well as the representative.
If there is more than 2 candidates for bureaucrat at the beginning, there will be a series of voting rounds that will occur until only 2 candidates are left. The votes would last 24 hours for each round, where staff member's could vote for the candidate of their choosing. When the vote ends a day later, the candidate with the least amount of votes would be eliminated (0 votes would automatically disqualify a candidate), and this process would repeat until only 2 candidates are left.
If there is a tie in the bullet rounds that is important to the process, then the administrators will vote on whichever of the tied candidates they would rather have as bureaucrat after the bullet round is finalized, and whoever of the tied candidates has more votes, will lead over their tied opponent or opponents. The tie-breaker vote would last 24 hours. If there is a tie in this vote, then it will go down to the bureaucrats votes, and in the scenario where the bureaucrats votes tie, the Server Owner will break the tie.
When there are only 2 candidates left, a site-wide vote would be held on the first day of the next month, for all Fandom users to vote in. The vote would last 7 days, and whichever admin receives the most votes at the end would become a bureaucrat.
If there is only one candidate for bureaucrat who is uncontested, they will automatically become a bureaucrat without a vote. If there are only 2 candidates, the final vote will take place without any other votes.
Administrators roles
Administrators are trusted users who are in charge of Administrating the wiki. Their main user rights are:
- Having access to edit wiki code.
- Blocking/unblocking users and their user IDs.
- Having the ability to promote users to discussions moderator.
Administrators also have all the user rights of content moderators and Thread moderators. In order to become an administrator, you must be a quality, active content moderator (who has had their rights for over 90 days) who uses their rights frequently and removes vandalism and things that don't meet this Wiki's standards. You also would need 1,020 edits. If you become an admin this way you are considered a Content Administrator.
You can also become an administrator being an active Thread moderator (who has had their rights for over 90 days) who also has over 120 posts, and has done an exceptional job as a Thread moderator. If you become an admin this way you are considered a Thread Administrator.
Content moderators roles
Content moderators are trusted to remove any profanity, spam, or anything else harmful towards Wikitubia, and are trusted to delete pages that don't follow the Wikitubia rules. Their main user rights are:
- Editing fully protected pages.
- Deleting or undeleting pages or files.
- Editing protected files.
- Renaming files.
- Protecting/unprotecting pages.
Content moderators also have the rights of rollbackers and some rights of discussions moderators. In order to become a content moderator, you must be one of the best active rollbackers (who has been one for over 60 days) for the role who spots out and reverts vandalism as well as enforcing the rules, who also has over 240 edits.
Thread moderators roles
Thread moderators are users who monitor the discussions to make sure the rules are being followed. Here are some of their main user rights are:
- Removing/restoring messages on message walls.
- Deleting blog posts.
- Editing and deleting article comments.
- Deleting, restoring, and locking discussions posts and replies.
- Locking page comment sections.
In order to become a Thread moderator, you must be an active contributor to the discussions board, or in the comments of an article. Another qualification for becoming a Thread Moderator is that you must have been on the wiki for 60 days and have 120 posts, as well as behaving appropriately in the discussion Threads (example: following the rules, not arguing or being aggressive towards other users, reporting posts that are against our rules). You also must not have a warning given to you by a staff member from the last 60 days.
Rollbacks roles
Rollbacks can undo edits in one click. Regularly, undoing an edit will take multiple clicks. But with rollback, it will automatically undo recent edited user's edit in one button.
In order to become a rollback, you must be an active contributor with over 480 edits, who also has been on on the wiki for over 30 days and also help fight against vandalism, as well as having useful contributions. You also need to go 1 year without being blocked in order to become a rollbacker, though if you have been blocked twice or more than you are permanently ineligible; this also applies to any other staff positions. You also have to go 45 days without getting a warning from a staff member.
Content and Thread Administrators/Bureaucrats
The difference between the status of being a Thread administrator and a Content administrator is usually, if the admin was promoted to admin from being a content moderator, they would be considered a content administrator as they were promoted from a content role, and if they were promoted from being a Thread moderator, they would be considered a discussions administrator as they were promoted from a discussions role. If a user had both discussions and content moderator rights, they would be considered both a Thread administrator. Whichever status a bureaucrat had as admin when they were promoted would be the same, except it would be for bureaucrats, Which are a Content bureaucrat and a Thread bureaucrat.
The different status help determine their staff page activity status, as well as their demotion rules. With the staff page activity status. However, if an admin wants to they can switch their status roles around, they are able to do so, but they must have over 480 posts or edits in that category, depending on which one they would like to be a part of. If an administrator goes 60 days without editing and has the content role they will lose it, and if an admin goes 60 days without posting with the discussions role they will lose their discussions status.
Wiki Voting
On our Discord server, votes are held privately between staff members to make decisions on things in Wikitubia. This could range from a new category proposal, staff reinstatement, or other contested topics in Wikitubia. All staff members who are on our Discord can vote, including our wiki representative. All votes end after a week unless there is a majority (majority of staff members on the Discord server) before then, and they also have an attached thread for discussions on the vote.
Demotion
In order for a staff member to be demoted from their rights, they must have not edited in 60 days (for rollbackers, content moderators, content administrators, and content bureaucrats) or not made a discussions post in 60 days (Thread moderators, discussions administrators, discussions bureaucrats). Though less common, another way for a staff member to lose their rights is if they're abusing them such as making harmful/unnecessary edits, breaking the rules, or using their rights for unwarranted reasons. This could also potentially become a block or ban, depending on the situation.
If a staff member had clearly broken one of the rules or one of the rules on our Discord server, the voting admins could vote on demoting them, and if 2/3 of all voting admins agree then the user would be demoted, but if that threshold was not met, then if 1/4 of all voting administrators would agree, then another vote on demoting them would begin, which would be held for all of the voting staff members (including the wiki representative) who are on this Wiki's Discord Server. If the vote wins a 2/3 of approval, otherwise known as a super-majority, then their rights will be removed. After that, there will be a private vote and discussion held on blocking or even banning that user between this Wiki's Wiki Jurors, a group of 7 staff members on Discord who make decisions on bans and ban/block appeals, and whatever their decision is will be the consequence of the user. For users being punished for breaking a rule on this Wiki's Discord Server, they would have to go through this Wiki's Discord Jury, a group of 7 Elite Wiki Friends on this Wiki's Discord Server, with the same process.
Another way a user could get demoted is if 2/3 of all voting administrators agree to a vote on this Wiki's Discord Server, to either deem them unfit for their staff position (which is for circumstances when a staff member is causing issues, has trouble communicating with others, has poor English, does not use their given rights, rude or unhelpful, or any other problematic reasons; or too inactive for their staff position, which shouldn't necessarily be used for users that have gone inactive and will be most likely demoted in 60 days after their inactivity started), but rather for users who rarely edit or post, but do it just enough to avoid the regular demotion rules for inactivity. If the admin vote has under 2/3 of support, then the user will not be demoted at that point, but if the vote has 1/4 or over of admin votes, then another vote will began for all wiki staff. If the vote gets approved by 2/3 of staff then they will be considered unfit for their position as staff and will have their rights removed. Also, if a staff member is globally blocked or if they disabled their account, they will be demoted.
Reinstatement
If for whatever reason, a former staff member wants to regain their rights, they would have to edit for 10 consecutive days for a content staff position, or post in the discussions for 10 consecutive days for a discussions staff position, and a majority of the current staff (including the wiki representative) who are on our Discord server would have to agree to reinstating their rights. There would also have to be enough open space for the staff position in order to be reinstated to the respective staff group. Users are not allowed to be reinstated if they have only one block in the past year, or if they have had more than one block. They also must meet the edit or post requirements, if they were promoted before there was a requirement. If a vote to reinstate a user fails, they can not go through the reinstatement process for another 6 months (180 days).
If a former staff member would like to be reinstated on a different account from their original one, they can do with the same procedure. However, if their overall edit count between both accounts doesn't meet the edit requirement for the rank they are wanting, they are ineligible until their overall edits meet the requirement.
Staff Applications
Usually, there are no ways to apply to become staff, however, in the occasion in which there is a rollbacker or discussions moderator shortage with no users qualifying to fill the vacancy, there could be a Google Forms released for all users who want to apply for the rights, regardless of if they meet the regular promotion requirements for the role that is lacking members. The form would be available for a period of time, usually 3 days, and at the end one user (or as many is needed to fill the shortage) would be selected to fill the vacancy, and with the approval of a majority vote of Wikitubia staff members on it's Discord, would be promoted. However, it is not a requirement for the administration to pick a user at the time and could very well conclude the applications with no user selected, especially in the event of a user being promoted who qualifies and fills the shortage, leaving no use for the form to be open any longer.
Former staff members
Ryan69yt: Former Bureaucrat and Former Administrator