Global sysops
 | 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. |
Global sysops are highly trusted users with a strong track record of cross-wiki contributions that have administrator privileges on all public wikis for the purposes of antivandalism and routine maintenance. They have no extra editorial control over content or the local community.
Scope[edit | edit source]
Global sysops have administrator access on all publicly editable WickedGov wikis. They can use basic tools such as deletion and blocking as well as more complex tools such as editing system messages and abuse filters.
Global sysops may only use their access in the following cases:
- Prevention or mitigation of spam or vandalism.
- Prevention or mitigation of disruption caused by compromised accounts.
- Emergencies and urgent situations.
- Uncontroversial technical maintenance.
- Enforcement of global policies or actions, including global bans.
- Other actions supported by local policy/consensus when there are no local administrators or all local administrators are inactive.
Appointment[edit | edit source]
Requests for global sysop rights should be placed on Stewards/Requests/Global permissions. The request will be approved by a Steward if there is a consensus for the user to become a global sysop. The discussion is not a vote; comments must present specific points in favor of or against the user's approval.
Removal[edit | edit source]
Continued global sysop access depends on both activity and the continued support of the Wikimedia community.
Inactivity[edit | edit source]
Global sysops will automatically lose their access if they have not made any edits to any WickedGov wiki in six months.
Vote of confidence[edit | edit source]
Any Steward may remove a global sysop's rights at any time if they feel the tools have been abused or seriously misused. Access may also be removed after thorough community discussion.