Guild Wars Wiki:Adminship/21-07-2009draft

The English language Guild Wars Wiki is administered by the community. There are two types of formal administrator status: sysop and bureaucrat. This status is not intended to represent extra weight within community decisions or generally directing the wiki, nor is it a requirement for moderating or enforcing policy. Like all users, administrators are expected to respect policy and consensus.

Sysops
Sysops are users that are also granted technical access to a few restricted features (including blocking users and deleting pages), and the additional responsibility of not misusing them. When effecting a change that requires this access, a clear reason must be provided and the action must only be performed in these cases (or else be reversed):
 * As specifically noted in any written policy, e.g. deletion according to deletion policy. For this purpose, mentions of "administrative action" should be interpreted as an allowance of blocking/banning offenders.
 * In accordance with an arbitration ruling or injunction.
 * At their own discretion, whenever he or she believes it would be supported directly by community consensus (regarding the specific change/action). If going against what would normally be accepted as policy or going beyond usual sysop actions, the sysop is to note this action on the sysop discretion log. If this discretion is exercised and the expected consensus is seriously challenged by any user, an actual consensus needs to be established and implemented or the action(s) should be reverted. In challenged cases that break an explicit restriction, the action(s) are to be reverted while that consensus is not yet established.
 * A group of 3 sysops forms an arbitration committee, which is conducted according to arbitration policy. The committee membership for each arbitration case is composed by willing sysops, preferably uninvolved in the request for arbitration (so gaining sysops status in the middle of a case does not give permission to join the active committee for that case).

Bureaucrats
Bureaucrats have sysop status as well as the additional ability of altering the assigned groups and administrator status of user accounts based on community decisions, policy, or arbitration. This includes appointing or revoking sysops based on requests for adminship and managing bot status. A clear reason has to be provided in the log when altering the user rights.

Selection process
The sysop selection (and reconfirmation) process is governed by the policy for requests for adminship. Other ways to lose sysophood include arbitration and voluntary resignation.

The bureaucrat selection process is governed by the policy for requests for bureaucracy. Bureaucrats are generally appointed for fixed terms of 12 months from their date of appointment, appointed from the currently active and willing sysops. Bureaucrats can be removed by voluntary resignation (which may be done at any time), or by unanimous votes of the other bureaucrats (as long as there are at least 2 others), or by losing sysop status.

ArenaNet is not formally involved in the administrator selection process except where explicitly specified, and community decisions may not be otherwise appealed to them. ArenaNet staff may participate in the administrator selection process just as any other contributor in good standing, but their opinions are given equal weight as other members of the community.