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(My attempt at a Junior Admins policy, draft for now until I get questions in parentheses answered. More explanation on talk) |
(Change: Suspended usergroup. New opinions?) |
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*Deleting and restoring pages, page histories, and uploaded files. Deleted pages cannot have a large history (~10 allows them to delete vandal pages, but not pages under discussion for deletion) | *Deleting and restoring pages, page histories, and uploaded files. Deleted pages cannot have a large history (~10 allows them to delete vandal pages, but not pages under discussion for deletion) | ||
*Locking (protecting) a page so it cannot be edited or renamed by non-admins, or semi-protect pages so that autoconfirmed users can edit it but new ones and IPs cannot. (Will Junior Admins be able to edit fully locked pages | *Locking (protecting) a page so it cannot be edited or renamed by non-admins, or semi-protect pages so that autoconfirmed users can edit it but new ones and IPs cannot. (Will Junior Admins be able to edit fully locked pages) | ||
* | *Adding and removing users to a new, "suspended", usergroup. While in this usergroup, users cannot make new pages or edit most sections of the wiki, but can edit their talk page. This functions almost like a block, but can only be applied for short periods of time (would 6 hours work?), during which time an admin can evaluate and decide to remove/extend the block on the user. | ||
*Moving pages over redirects/without leaving a redirect. (Unsure, for janitorial work) | *Moving pages over redirects/without leaving a redirect. (Unsure, for janitorial work) | ||
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*Juniors are not considered "staff"; they cannot edit wiki-wide text or stylesheets, do not have access to the wiki's e-mail or YouTube accounts, and are not treated as member-wiki-staff on the NIWA forums.(Obvious reasons, position is to gain trust to be a full Admin) | *Juniors are not considered "staff"; they cannot edit wiki-wide text or stylesheets, do not have access to the wiki's e-mail or YouTube accounts, and are not treated as member-wiki-staff on the NIWA forums.(Obvious reasons, position is to gain trust to be a full Admin) | ||
Also, junior administrators should not | While the current MediaWiki system makes it impossible to physically restrict one from doing so, junior administrators are expected to follow these guidelines. Also, junior administrators should not increase a page's protection level to anything past semi-protection except to stop an edit war until an admin can evaluate the protection. | ||
Not following these guidelines will result in warnings, followed by a demotion from junior administrator if the junior administrator continues this behavior. | Not following these guidelines will result in warnings, followed by a demotion from junior administrator if the junior administrator continues this behavior. |