Promotions rounds are opened in announcements, and they begin whenever we feel we need to bring on more team members to keep things running smoothly.
When a promotions round starts, you may nominate yourself for a position by making a new thread here. Explain what position you're running for and why, what you've done for the wiki, what you can add to the team, examples of work you have done to help the Wiki, and why we should choose you over other applicants. You may also nominate another user in the same format.
However, we do have a few requirements, so please make sure you or the person you're nominating meets them first. You must meet these requirements before you post your nomination thread.
Discussions Moderators
- The requirement to run for discussions moderator is at least 500 discussions posts.
- You must not have been banned from this wiki three months prior for discussion-related reasons.
- You must have consistently reported posts that violate the rules.
- You must understand the Discussion Tab rules and how the Thread Moderator user rights work. (e.g. You must know when a post should be locked, know when to delete a post, and know how to check reported posts).
Content Moderators
- The edit requirement to run for content moderator is at least 100 article edits.
- You must not have been banned from this wiki three months prior for edit-related reasons.
- You must make consistent, helpful edits on articles.
- You must understand the Article rules and how the Content Moderator user rights work. (e.g. You must know how to lock an article, delete an article, move an article, and revert vandalism on articles).
The last requirement is to have a Discord account so that you can contact other staff, and vice versa. We have a Discord server where staff will have private discussions that you must be a part of.
Finally, a note that we may be flexible with these requirements if your contributions are significant or if we aren't able to find a suitable candidate among those who do fit the requirements. We also may end up promoting nobody at all, if we can't find anyone we feel would do a good job.
The process for selecting new moderators is as follows: The existing wiki staff looks through all the nomination threads, and we narrow our options down to a handful, based on activity, helpfulness, good track record, etc. We account for public support and especially public critique — we don't have a public voting system, but if you have information about a user that you feel makes them an unfit moderator, we encourage you to post about it and let us know. Encouragement and reasons you think a user is qualified help as well, but ultimately it is up to the staff team to decide who is promoted.
Once we have a selected handful of potential candidates, we discuss among ourselves extensively, and finally come to a consensus.
Administrators are promoted up from a moderator position, and bureaucrats up from administrator. You cannot run for either of these without first being a moderator, and we will never be accepting nominations.