WikiEducator:Administrators

WikiEducator administrators are community members who volunteer to assist with additional technical tasks in the wiki. Administrators have access to additional tools and features in the wiki to support their administrative tasks.

Administrators are entrusted community members who help with page deletion requests, monitoring and blocking users in the case of vandalism, or protecting wiki pages in clearly defined circumstances. Administrators are not positions of authority, but entrusted volunteers who support the WikiEducator community in achieving its aims. We encourage users to consider volunteering time in helping the WikiEducator family with this important task.

Since the early days of WikiEducator, administrator privileges have been assigned in good faith to users who have demonstrated a willingness to serve in these roles without any formal approval mechanism or training support. Our impressive growth has encouraged the community to develop guidelines and supporting resources for the roles and responsibilities as community administrators. While administration roles require a reasonable level of wiki editing knowledge, any user who is keen to volunteer their services in supporting the maintenance and administration of our wiki are encouraged to join our team.

Types of Administrators
The classification of Administrators is largely determined by the maintenance and support features offered by the open source Mediawiki software engine used by WikiEducator. The following table summarises the types of users and corresponding features and wiki tools used to support administration of our wiki:

Selection of Administrators

 * Selection of Administrators --- under draft here

Relevant policies
These are draft policies under development-- to be developed before guidelines below:


 * Selection of Administrators --- under draft here
 * Policy for page deletions - Status: Draft
 * Policy for page protection - Status: Draft
 * Policy for blocking users - Status: Draft

Guidelines for Administrators
These pages are intended to provide admins with guidelines in executing their responsibilities


 * Page deletions
 * Blocking users
 * Protecting pages

List of Current Sysop Administrators

 * User:Kruhly
 * User:Mackiwg
 * User:Leighblackall
 * User:Eloquence
 * User:Wikirandy
 * User:BrentSimpson
 * User:Ktucker
 * User:JimTittsler
 * User:SteveFoerster
 * User:Sgurell
 * User:Phsi
 * User:Dmccabe
 * User:Pschlicht
 * User:Nelliemuller
 * User:Jesse_Groppi
 * User:ASnieckus
 * User:Vtaylor
 * User:Kubke

 Admin Workgroup Meeting (Asynchronous), Second Session, from 0001 UTC on 5 August 2009 to 2400 UTC on 7 September 2009 Venue : TALK PAGE