13,610
edits
User talk:Silver Infernus: Difference between revisions
→Nomination for Promotion
| Line 50: | Line 50: | ||
:I added a couple of extra questions which you haven't answered yet - could you check those out? Thanks - [[User:Gboyers|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers|talk]]</sup> 02:51, 21 January 2012 (UTC) | :I added a couple of extra questions which you haven't answered yet - could you check those out? Thanks - [[User:Gboyers|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers|talk]]</sup> 02:51, 21 January 2012 (UTC) | ||
Congratulations - you have been promoted to [[Grand Theft Wiki: Staff|Administrator]]. Just to clarify the new rights, responsibilities and limitations of your new role: admins are responsible for keeping the wiki running smoothly, which is why we give you the extra tools. It's not that admins are 'in charge' of other users, but they have the responsibility to make sure everything runs smoothly. Think of it how a Police Officer is not in charge of the citizens, but in an emergency they can put their foot down and make sure everything runs smoothly. | |||
This is one thing I wanted to make sure was completely clear, in light of your promotion discussion. The purpose of staff is ''not'' to make decisions, tell people what to do, or 'handle authority'. Decisions and disagreements we have to 'sort out' are actually pretty rare. The main role of the staff team (as a whole) is to keep the wiki running smoothly (giving it a gentle nudge in the right direction every now and then), and to be the public face of the wiki for its users (to answer questions, help them out, and encourage them). This is what the vast majority of the staff time is spent on. Staff are trusted with extra tools to help them do that job, and also to step in should something bad happen. Please don't be thinking that now you have the badge and the rights that you have to use them or that you should be blocking people or deleting pages frequently. | |||
The rights you have are listed on [[Special:ListGroupRights]] (just ask me if you need any of them explaining). The ones you'll use most are move, delete and block. Have a browse through Special:SpecialPages as you might find some interesting things in there. I really don't mean to scare you though - it's great fun being staff here, and I'm really proud to have started this site and helped it grow. I look forward to you being able to stamp your mark on the site and help make it even better than you could as a normal user. Over time, every staff member figures out what they like most and forges a niche for themselves (such as organising images or fixing-up crappy pages) - I hope you spend the time to figure out what you enjoy most and become really useful to us! | |||
The administrator position is subject to a 4-week probation period. This simply means in 4 weeks I'll speak to the rest of the staff and decide whether to make your promotion permanent, or whether we need to think again. It shouldn't be a problem but it gives us an opportunity to see you at work (because good users don't always make good admins). Also, please could you sign up for an account at [http://www.thegtaplace.com/forums The GTA Place Forums] and then let me know your username (on here), so that you can access our private GTA staff forum? Also, could you verify your email address in [[Special:Preferences]] just so we can verify your identify if your account is ever compromised? | |||
And don't forget - if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask me or another staff member. It's my personal responsibility to make sure you get up to speed and become an awesome member of staff and help make this wiki even better! Good luck - [[User:Gboyers|gboyers]] <sup>[[User_talk:Gboyers|talk]]</sup> 23:25, 29 January 2012 (UTC) | |||