Stewards
 | This page documents an official global policy. It represents broad consensus, and compliance is mandatory for all projects. It should not be modified without prior community approval. |
Stewards are users with full technical access to all features on all WickedGov wikis. This enables them to act as administrators, bureaucrats, or functionaries on all wikis in uncontroversial cases and emergencies, especially when there are no local users available. Stewards serve the global and local communities and may only act in accordance with consensus. They are volunteers and are not employed by WickedGov.
Stewards are not governors, arbitrators, or mediators; they have no special authority to resolve local or global disputes.
Duties
Primary duties
Stewards are the primary users responsible for performing the following technical actions:
Global user management
- Making and removing global locks on accounts, including suppression of usernames across all wikis
- Making and removing global blocks on IP addresses and accounts
- Renaming global accounts
Restricted user permissions
- Configuring membership in global groups
- Configuring the permissions assigned to global groups
- Adding and removing the local suppressor, checkuser, and interface administrator groups on all wikis
- Removing the bureaucrat group on all wikis
- Removing the administrator group on wikis where bureaucrats do not have the technical ability to do so
CheckUser and suppression
- Performing CheckUser actions on all wikis, agreeably to the CheckUser policy
- Performing suppression actions on all wikis, agreeably to the suppression policy
Miscellaneous
- Creating and maintaining global abuse filters
- Maintaining the global interwiki table
- Deleting pages with more than 5,000 revisions (according to local consensus)
Supplementary duties
Stewards are additionally permitted to perform the following actions on all wikis, but only in the following cases:
- Prevention or mitigation of spam, vandalism, or unambiguous disruption.
- Prevention or mitigation of disruption caused by compromised accounts.
- Emergencies and urgent situations.
- Uncontroversial maintenance.
- Enforcement of global policies or actions, including global bans and the global inactivity policy.
- When the action is supported by local consensus, but there are no active, willing local users to perform the action.
Administrative actions
- Blocking and unblocking users
- Deleting and undeleting pages, files, revisions, and log entries
- Protecting and unprotecting pages and files
- Editing fully protected pages and files
- Using the rollback feature
- Maintaining local disallowed titles lists and spam blocklists
- Maintaining local abuse filters
- Performing any other action which is traditionally performed by administrators on all or most wikis
User permissions
- Adding the administrator and bureaucrat groups
- Removing the administrator group on wikis where bureaucrats have the technical ability to do so
- Adding and removing the bot and account creator groups
- Adding and removing custom groups configured on individual wikis