User:Zeal/Sandbox/Groups

The following are the official WoWWiki staff groups. These are only a list of the pre-defined groups. Any group can create a sub-group within itself that has the same powers, but take on only one aspect of the parent group. A likely candidate for this is the former Welcomining Comitee.

If a group requires a sub-group or cross over group, with new powers, they should be proposed and if successful shall appear on this list.

Official WoWWiki Groups

Administrators

Team Leader

Fandyllic

Description

You don't get much more powerful than this. Eventually, when all esle fails, the other teams turn to the admins. They are mostly members of other teams, who have long proven their worth and ability along with the trust of existing admins or team leaders, selected by the team leader and working as an arbitrary council on matters of importance. Common issues they deal with are policy changes and resolving disputes between users, but they can and will step into any role to help out the other teams and deal with things beyond a team's scope or powers.

Powers

• Everything

Article Council

Team Leader

Unknown

Description

A sub-team of the Watchdogs, the Article Council ensures consistancy of information and styling across all pages and acts as the more pro-active arm of the Watchdogs. They will act upon articles marked for stubbing, splitting, merging and disambiguation among other things, while deligating the more specific jobs like citation requests and fact checking to other teams where needed.

Powers

• Lock Pages
• Unlock Pages
• Edit locked pages
• Move locked pages

Bookeepers

Team Leader

Ragestorm

Description

The Bookkeepers are charged with maintaining all lore information throughout WoWWiki to ensure it stays accurate, neutral and up-to-date. It is their job to arbitrate any disputes over lore, ensure speculation is handled according to policy, and add citation and refrences where needed. They are also charged with writing policies on lore and all things surrounding it for WoWWiki. Overlapping roles mean this team works closely with the Article Council, taking on their issues that are relevent to lore.

Powers

• Revert pages

Cat Team

Team Leader

Unknown

Description

The Category team is a sub-team of the Article Council. They check that pages are correctly categorized according to the categorization policy and that the the categorization tags have the appropriate sort keys on them. Their task is to create and maintain a complete and consistant browsable category heriarchy for WoWWiki.

Powers

• Lock Pages in the Category namespace
• Unlock Pages in the Category namespace
• Edit locked pages in the Category namespace
• Move locked pages in the Category namespace

Directors

Team Leader

Rustak

Description

This is a rather limited group in terms of members. The members of this group sets up and maintains the actual infrastructure of WoWWiki, such as what server it runs on, what internet connection it uses, how things get paid for, what software is used, etc. Our wonderful benefactor in this case is Rustak who you can view as sort of a philosopher king and occasional contributor to WoWWiki. He usually doesn't respond to day-to-day requests, but holds the ultimate power and responsibility for whether WoWWiki runs or not. Basically, all major decisions about the running of WoWWiki defer to these guys.

Powers

• Everything
• Even more

Support Team

Team Leader

Unknown

Description

The Support Team help out users on WoWWiki, proving support to contributers and users alike when needed, as well as writing and maintaining the help documentation for WoWWiki. They are also tasked with welcoming new users, to ensure they know where to go for help and how to get the most out of WoWWiki.

Powers

• Lock pages in the WoWWiki namespace
• Unlock Pages in the WoWWiki namespace
• Edit locked pages in the WoWWiki namespace
• Move locked pages in the WoWWiki namespace

Template Egineers

Team Leader

Unknown

Description

A sub-team of the Help Team, the Engineers focus on creating templates needed for WoWWiki and adding documentation for all Templates. Being part of the Help Team, they also act as further WoWWiki support for users wishing to create Templates or having trouble using them.

Powers

• Lock Pages in the Template namespace
• Unlock Pages in the Template namespace
• Edit locked pages in the Template namespace
• Move locked pages in the Template namespace

Watchdogs

Team Leader

Unknown

Description

The Watchdogs are a WoWWiki patrol team, dedicated to watching the recent changes list for malicious edits and vandalism, reporting vandals to admins to deal with. They also watch the new pages list, commenting on a page's talk page and giving the author insight into how the page may be improved, as well as marking articles for deletion, stubbing, splitting, merging and disambiguation. They will often deligate jobs to Article Council and inform them where and why action needs to be taken.

Powers

• Revert Pages
• Lock Pages