DDO wiki:Administration guideline

DDOwikiVIP promotion
This user group allows skipcaptcha and auto-patrolled, and kind of substitutes Auto-confirmed user and Superuser altogether. Admins should promote users to this group as they become tired of patrolling useful edits form the same user, or by the time the user reaches 3-digit useful contributions and proved their willingness to contribute.

Sysop promotion
As a WikiVIP user starts doing advanced editing such as page move/merge, major cleanup, template tweakage, launching a project etc, existing admins should consider promoting and letting him "join the club". It can be by request from the user also. It's all case by case basis and common sense thing after all. Two or more admins' agreement is preferable. Majority vote if any objection.

Admin duties
Admins (Sysops and above) are encouraged (but not required) to do the following;
 * Edit patrols on a regular-basis (use Special:Patrol)
 * Ban spambots and revert their edits.
 * Protect/un-protect pages when appropriate.
 * Answering newbie questions on Forum:Reference desk as soon as possible (Remember, not everyone bothers to register on ddo.com forums!)
 * Finding and deleting unnecessary pages (Special:UncategorizedPages helps)
 * Fixing Double-redirects time to time (Special:DoubleRedirects)

Fansite board announcements (ddo.com forums)

 * http://forums.ddo.com/forumdisplay.php?f=164

To start a thread on that board, Turbine moderators' permission is needed. Currently, Borror0 and Yk49 (yoko5000) has right to do so.

List of current admins
Note that, not all admins are listed on Home Administration section (Template:Home/Administration). One may go inactive, and one who doesn't want attention may choose not to be listed there. Admin status is not intended to represent extra weight within community. Like all other users, administrators are expected to respect policy and consensus, and act accordingly.

Sysops

 * - Active. Top contributor.
 * - Active. #2 contributor.
 * - Inactive since 2011 March.
 * - Inactive since 2007 Feb.
 * - Inactive. Ex-admin for ru.ddowiki.com (scratched project).
 * - Active.
 * - Active. The "map guy".
 * - Active.
 * - Inactive since 2010 June.
 * - Active. Strong forum presence.
 * - Semi-active.

Bureaucrats

 * - Active. Top contributor.
 * - Active. #2 contributor.
 * - Top contributor of the early time. Doesn't have enough time to do admin side things for the wiki but still contributing as a editor.
 * - Inactive. In 2008, Turbine stopped releasing WDA (weekly development announcements). He was running another DDO fansite, called ddoreports, at that time. We worked together to see if what we can do to replace WDA and launched In development article.

Stewards

 * - Active. Top contributor.
 * - Active. #2 contributor.
 * - Semi-active. Now (mostly) retired form the game. Still supervising the wiki. Had strong presence on the ddo.com boards, and the DDO community still recognize him as the "wiki guy".

Developers

 * - Active. #2 contributor.
 * - Creater of the DDOwiki. Retired from the wiki and passed site ownership to Xevo. Never played the game.
 * - Inactive.
 * - Co-creater of the DDOwiki and current website host. Never played the game.