DDO wiki:Administration guideline

User Rights and Privileges (Table)
There are a select few members that have been here since the start of and therefor have "Founder" status so to speak, these individuals are deserving of special consideration. To have been considered qualified as a founder, a user must have created and account and made useful contributions (not necessarily edits) in the 25% of 's existence.

How to Promote a Person in User Groups
Administrators use Special:UserRights once the person has met the criteria.

VIP Promotion
This user group allows (skipcaptcha) and (auto-patrolled), and kind of substitutes auto-confirmed user and super user altogether. Administrators should promote users to this group as they become tired of patrolling useful edits from the same user, or by the time the user reaches 3-digit useful contributions, use the User edit award template and proved their willingness to contribute. Use Special:CountEdits to check total count.

System Operator Promotion
As a VIP user starts doing advanced editing such as page move/merge, major cleanup, template tweakage, launching a project etc, existing administrators 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 administrators' agreement is preferable. Majority vote if any objection. The basic criteria for promotion is as follows (taken from DDO_wiki:Administrators):
 * Users are required to have made at least 1,000+ edits.
 * Users are required to have been editing for an amount of time of no less than six consecutive months.
 * Users that meet the above two requirements may be nominated or nominate themselves.

Bureaucrat Promotion
This user group is for the experienced Administrator on the. One of the highest ranks with near every privilege that the wiki has to offer. Only the most dedicated administrators who demonstrate excellent edits and policy enforcement will be considered. Two-thirds of the voting administrators must be in agreement (minimum of two votes are required).

Steward Promotion
The highest user group with unlimited editing privileges. Promotion to this group is decided on a case by case basis and only the most absolute dedicated administrators are considered. You must already be a system operator and a bureaucrat and belong to the 10K edit user category. Approval from is usually required to enter into this group.

Administrator Duties
Administrators (system operators 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)
 * Note unnecessary pages are mostly just certain misspellings (Common ones may be useful to improve searches), spam and non-game related content. Not short/unfinished pages you deem unimportant. Short pages should be tagged with help improve, or redirected to a more complete related page. Also use the "What links here" tool to verify a page is not in use, and clear the links to it before you delete it if you are sure it's unnecessary.
 * Fixing Double-redirects time to time (Special:DoubleRedirects)

Fansite Board Announcements (ddo.com forums)

 * https://www.ddo.com/forums/forumdisplay.php/164-Fansite-News

To start a thread on that board, Turbine moderators' permission is needed. Currently, Borror0 and Yk49 (yoko5000) have the rights to start such a thread.

List of Current Administrators
Note that, not all administrators 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. Administrators 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.

System Operators ([ full list])

 * - Co-creator of the and current website host. Never played the game.
 * - Active. Top contributor.


 * - Active
 * - Active. #2 contributor and template&bull;user interface guy.
 * - Semi-active


 * - Active.
 * - Active. The "map guy".
 * - Semi-active.

Bureaucrats ([ full list])

 * - Co-creator of the and current website host. Never played the game.
 * - Active. Top contributor.
 * - Active. #2 contributor and template&bull;user interface guy.
 * - Active.

Stewards ([ full list])

 * - Co-creator of the and current website host. Never played the game.
 * - Semi-active. Now (mostly) retired from 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".
 * - Active. Top contributor.
 * - Active. #2 contributor and template&bull;user interface guy.

Host

 * - Co-creator of the and current website host. Never played the game.