Bureaucrats (nominations)

Admins (nominations)

Rollback (requests)

Standards Council

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User groups

AvatarRokusGhost wall · email	Fanon portal updater. Active across all dimensions of fanon on the wiki, and writes his own fan fiction. Contact for general issues relating to the fanon portal and its projects.	Active
Dcasawang1 wall · email	Maintenance-focused. Commonly seen fixing errors and making periodical updates to pages others miss. Contact if you are unsure or curious about wiki upkeep.	Active
Lady Lostris wall · email	Voracious editor. Always seen everywhere and anywhere to do with our articles. Pays vigorous attention to detail. Contact for issues regarding content and its accuracy.	Active
Thailog wall · email	Image and graphics guru. Has designed most of our themes. Maintains images, enforces our image policies, and keeps a bot handy. Contact for image or graphical inquiries.	Active
The 888th Avatar wall · email	Longest-serving admin. Maintains our policies and the technical stuff such as styling, templates, and messages. Also runs a bot. Contact for site rule and technical questions.	Active
The Bos wall · email	Avid fan fiction author and janitor. Spends much of his time writing new plots, but also active in canon content maintenance. Contact if you need fanon or general writing advice.	Active
Vulmen wall · email	Discussion moderator. Often seen publishing fan fiction and blog posts, but even more active in moderating our article and blog comments. Contact for discussion-related issues.	Active

About administrators Edit

Administrators are experienced members of the Avatar Wiki community who have been entrusted with access to restricted technical features ("tools") which help with maintenance. They are a small set of editors the wiki considers to be highly trustworthy, mature and responsible, able to lead by example.

Those seeking help will often turn to an administrator for advice and information. In community discussion and interaction, administrators may help provide a thoughtful voice in some kinds of consensus, and can also be helpful as discussion moderators. However, administrators are not a smaller, "more powerful" subset of users, and content and policy decisions are the responsibility of the entire community.

Additional abilities Edit

• Delete pages, page histories, files etc.
• Rename files (these are mainly images and videos).
• Lock (protect) a page so it cannot be edited or renamed by users without administrator rights.
• Block an IP address or user name from editing.
• Revert bad edits more easily using a "rollback" link.
• Edit the MediaWiki namespace to make changes to the interface.

Administrator tasks Edit

As part of administratorship, administrators are regularly expected to:

• Delete pages that the community has decided are unwanted, including
  • Pages that are obvious spam/vandalism
  • Pages marked with a {{delete}} tag if appropriate
  • Pages that the community has decided are unneeded through votes for deletion
• Protect pages that meet criteria for protection
• Block users that meet criteria for blocking
• Watch the administrator noticeboard for notices from users

Administrator conduct Edit

Administrators have been entrusted with the means to maintain the overall quality of the site. With this in mind:

• Administrators have no right to authority over the content and policies of the wiki. The administrators' authority is as large as the community would like it to be.
• Administrators do however have authority over behavioral problems such as vandalism or intimidation, hence the ability to block and delete.
• Administrators do not own the site. They cannot shut out the opinions of others.
• Abuse of administrator privileges may result in a removal of user rights after community discussion.

Inactivity Edit

Administrators should remain active to assist the wiki, who has entrusted them with additional user rights.

• An active status is defined as:
  • Continuing substantial contributions, defined as edits that do not include modifying user space pages, or correcting spelling/grammar/formatting.
  • A steady flow of such contributions, defined as editing on most days each month.
  • Reasonable speed in replying to user talk messages, defined as replying before the poster of the user talk message is forced to make an alternative consultation.
• Administrators should alert the community to a leave of absence by adding the inactivity template to their user page. The administrator should also mark themselves as inactive on the list of administrators. Leaves of absence may be for any length up to two months.
• If the administrator continues to be inactive for a prolonged period of time, removal of user rights will be considered by an active bureaucrat based on the non-fulfillment of the activity guidelines further above. Consideration will begin from when any leaves of absence were meant to finish. Where removal may be contentious, an active bureaucrat should also consult other community members.

Becoming an administrator Edit

Main article: Nominations for adminship

In general, the wiki should not have more than seven administrators. However, when a position is open, rollback users who have distinguished themselves over a period of time may be nominated for administratorship.

See also Edit

• User group rights