Warriors: The Ripple Wiki/Administrators

The **Administrators** or *Sysops* of Warriors: The Ripple Wiki are charged with coordinating the project, cleaning and defending the Wiki all while contributing to the Wiki's primary goals. These hardworking members help to ensure that the Wiki is properly kept and always making forward progress.

## Sysop Overview

Sysops are entrusted with a number of potentially destructive tools to use for the good of the Wiki. They handle many Janitorial and Administrative duties to keep the Wiki clean, organized and progressing. They work to prevent edit warring, vandalism and the like. Sysops are expected to act as shining members of the community and support and defend community consensus.
### Bureaucrats

Bureaucrats are Sysops that have the additional ability to make other individuals into Sysops or Bureaucrats.
## Special Tools

### Protect/Unprotect/Edit Protected Pages

Sysops have the power to **protect pages**, **remove protection from pages**, and **edit protected pages**.
Sysops are expected to use this ability responsibly, only protecting pages as needed. Incidents that warrant protection are templates that could be vandalized or unintentionally damaged and effect large numbers of page, pages that are repeatedly vandalized, or in an effort to curtail an edit-war until the cause of the war can be settled.
### Delete/Undelete Pages

Sysops are trusted with the power to **delete** or **restore** pages.
Pages are to be deleted in accordance with Policies and AfD Decisions. In some cases (Such as unused images with no clear application on this site, or Role Play Namespace pages created by IPs) it is appropriate for Sysops to eliminate pages without resorting to the AfD process.
### Block/Unblock Users

Sysops have the ability to **block** users, and to **lift bans** placed on them.
Sysops should only ban users who have been causing trouble, and only after they have had a clear opportunity to correct the error of their ways. Bans should, in most cases, be short. Sysops should not use this ability to silence dissenters against their own actions, but personal attacks do not have to be tolerated (If a Sysop is being attacked by a user, it is best to leave punishment of that user in the hands of another sysop).
Bans against users should only be lifted in the case that it is decided that too long, or too severe a punishment was issued to a user.
Unending bans should be used rarely, and only in the most severe cases.
Bans **should not** be used for personal matters. If a Sysop has a disagreement with another user that does not involve personal attacks, that does **not** give them the right to ban the user.
### Rollback Rights

Sysops have the power to **rollback**, or revert, edits, using a link found on the diff page. This is simply a faster way of undoing an edit.
This ability should be used only to quickly remove large quantities of incorrect information, or eliminate vandalism.
### Able to take Cat Requests

Admins have an ability to help new users find a cat, or take cat requests. Cat requests are requests for a cat, and mostly admins own Clans.
However, you may **not** take cat requests unless you are not an admin or part of Project Characters. For Project Character Warriors, keep in mind that you may only take three requests a week, while admins have a free access and an unlimited form of requests.
### Ability to edit the MediaWiki Namespace

Sysops have the power to edit pages that are a part of the MediaWiki Namespace.
These pages can do things such as effect the look and information provided on system pages, and in accordance Sysops are to always edit them with the best interest of the Wiki at heart. In many cases, dramatic edits to the Namespace will be discussed on public channels to establish consensus and involve the community in dramatic changes to the site.
## Duties

### Housekeeping

**Processing Articles for Deletion** by running the votes and/or finding pages that need to be eliminated.
**Eliminate Other Pages** in accordance with .
**Eliminate Unused Images** and other files from the Wiki.
Attend to **Broken Redirects** using Special:BrokenRedirects.
Eliminate **Double Redirects** using Special:DoubleRedirects.
**Categorize Pages** without Categories using Special:Uncategorizedpages, Special:Uncategorizedcategories, Special:Uncategorizedimages & Special:Uncategorizedtemplates.
Supply **Wanted Pages** identified by Special:Wantedpages.
**Use other Special Pages** to preform housekeeping and polish the wiki.
### Edit Patrolling

**Edit Patrolling** is the act of going through the recent edits to look for changes. Details on how are available Here.
Any **Vandalism** found while patrolling should be *rolled back*, *deleted* or *otherwise attended to* as quickly as possible.
Any **Spam** found while patrolling should be eliminated immediately.
### Wiki Coordination

**Coordinate** the wiki through **Projects**.
**Ensure Community Involvement** in Government through awareness, but without Soliciting.
**Support Transwiki Efforts** by rescuing information from Deleted Pages off other Wikimedia Projects.
**Welcome New Editors** using the {{Welcome!}} and {{Welcome-anon}} Templates.
### Policy Maintenance & Enforcement

Identify situations that require **documentation** and see that documentation is created.
Ensure **open discussion and consensus** during the creation of policies.
Ensure that **approved policies** are enforced properly.
### Technical Work

**Maintain and Improve** the Templates.
**Maintain and Improve** the Namespace Pages.
## Behavior Expectations

Sysops are expected to keep the good of the Wiki in mind at all times. This means respecting others, maintaining Wiki Policies, and using the Sysop tools for the good of all members.
### Ten Things A Sysop or Bureaucrat *Should Not* Do

A Sysop or Bureaucrat should **never**

1. Use their powers in an unjust way.
2. Use their powers to undo edits just because they believe that they are right.
3. Use their powers to make edit wars end in their favor.
4. Ban a user unjustly.
5. Undelete a page without a good reason that has been clearly stated and, if needed, voted on.
6. Delete pages made by another user to continue an argument.
7. Edit the MediaWiki namespace in a way that makes it difficult for other users to use the wiki.
8. Edit another user's personal skin customization pages, such as their wikia.css page, unless it is to revert vandalism that could not normally be edited by regular users.
9. Use their powers to edit the MediaWiki namespace in *any way not beneficial to the wiki*.
10. Think that, because they are a sysop/bureaucrat, they can bend any of these or Wikia's rules.

### Sysops Who Are Failing In Their Duties

In the event you feel a Sysop is failing in their duty to do what it best for the Wiki, please open an inquiry at the Discussion Area Forum that clearly outlines what you feel that Sysop is doing wrong. Other Sysops will review that inquiry, and decide of action is warranted.