Wikiversity:Custodianship
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The page documents an official English Wikiversity policy with wide acceptance by participants as a standard you should follow. Please propose and discuss changes to ensure your revisions reflect consensus. |
A Wikiversity custodian is an experienced and trusted user who can protect, delete and restore pages as well as block users from editing. Custodians are the Wikiversity equivalent of administrators, also known as sysops, bibliotecarios (librarians), and moderators.
The English Wikiversity currently has 12 custodians (full list), including human and bot users.
How does one become a custodian?
Any Wikiversity participant willing to do a lot of dull and boring work for the community can become a custodian. If you have a good editing record then you are likely to be trusted and granted the privileges and responsibilities of custodianship. If you are still interested in custodianship, here is the process it takes:
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You must request or be nominated for custodianship at Candidates for Custodianship. State your reasons for seeking this position and in what areas you are or would like to be active. You may also refer to your contributions and indicate whether you have similar responsibilities at other projects. |
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Custodian mentors are expected to guide and advise you on the appropriate use of custodian privileges in accordance with established policy and community consensus. If any experienced custodians agree to mentor you and you agree to their mentorship, then you will be approved as a probationary custodian for a period of at least four weeks. You will have all the privileges described below. If you have any questions or concerns, you should contact your mentor(s) for guidance and advice. If you or your mentor terminate the mentorship agreement before the probationary period is complete, you will have 48 hours to find a new mentor. Otherwise your mentor may request removal of custodian privileges after 48 hours, without any further notice or community discussion. |
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Your mentor will submit a request for comments at Candidates for Custodianship for a period of at least seven days when you are ready. During that period Wikiversity participants can evaluate how well the custodian privileges are used and how you conducted yourself at Wikiversity. |
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After one week of evaluation, a bureaucrat will make the final decision based on the arguments provided in the discussion. If you are approved, you will be a permanent custodian. If you are not approved, your probationary period may either be extended or you may request another mentorship later. |
What can custodians do?
Deletion and undeletion of pages
Custodians can delete pages including images, categories, templates, etc. Deletion is subject to policy. Deletion requests may be submitted by any user at Wikiversity:Requests for Deletion.
Deleting a page does not actually remove it from the database. It is merely invisible to non-custodians and can be restored at request, which may be submitted at Wikiversity:Requests for Deletion. Page deletions and undeletions can be monitored by viewing the deletion log.
Custodians can also delete individual versions with the RevisionDelete feature. This is particularly useful to remove materials that violate copyrights or other applicable law.
Before you delete a page, read: Wikiversity:Welcome templates. See also: Wikiversity:Deletion policy.
Edit and move protection of pages
Custodians can protect pages to prevent editing. There are two types of page protection: semi-protection, which prevents anonymous and new users from editing, and full protection, which prevents all non-custodians from editing. A page can also be protected to prevent moving. Page protection can be lifted by any custodian upon request, which may be submitted at Wikiversity:Request custodian action. Page protections and unprotections can be monitored by viewing the protection log.
Rollback
Custodians have a rollback tool to revert the last change or group of changes made to a page by the same user. There is no option to provide an edit summary when using this tool. Instead, a summary such as "Reverted edits by $2 (talk) to last version by $1 using rollback" will be used automatically. This tool is primarily used to respond to obvious vandalism and spam. For other edit reversions, the rollback button should not be used and a good edit summary should be provided.