User:D. Cello/sandbox/blogpost

Title: Changes to Staff hierarchy

Good news for all wannabe staff members and users in general.

Recently I've been thinking (I don't do that a lot). Lately, I've been getting busier and busier with my life overall, and since I've never spent much time in front of computers, I'm not used to let it take time from my other duties/joys. So for the past few weeks, my focus on wiki have been on the bureaucraut part of the job (being the punishing hand when needed and keeping things rolling when necessary) while our admins done the actual sysop tasks.

Also, in that same period, we had many new editors joining our wiki, some of them who are really good. And we had some old users standing out even more than they did previously. This time period also saw lots of changes on wiki in general, like ideas, templates, the groups proposition (which seems forgotten, as everyone wants to be a guardian ¬¬) and those damn nice little medals. And I've been considering ways to reward users besides that damn badge system.

And here it is:

The first main change request by some Istruttori is the writing of a... hierarchy. Altough it is called such, it is not a command scale. This wiki doesn't belong to anyone, but we must have leaders and "sub-leaders" to keep things working, or it all should crumble. Hierarchy is the only applyable name, so we'll use it.

The staff tier is changed. From down up:

-Editors: Regular users, who have no obligation or duties inside the wiki, except for the informal commitment of helping the wiki be a lovely place and information source to everyone around the globe.

-Rollbacksaka Istruttore under Training: Those users receive the power to undo edits with a single click. They are either users being probed for Istruttore inclusion or users who stand out and are rewarded with a nice ability inside the wiki as a reward and help to their efforts.

-Istruttori: The wiki moderators. They have rollback abilities and the ruling vote on article nominations.

- - - - -Bureaucraut aka "Me", Lord Cello, the first and only, ruler of the kingdom of awesomeness ;D This job, my job, is to keep the

probatory admin, we may say. I'll create a rank midway between Istruttori and admin, and when the wiki grows a little more and we need a new admin, I'll up you to full fledged Sysop status and other person takes your shoes as probatory sysop. =D