Board Thread:Support Requests - Designing Your Wikia/@comment-24689372-20140508143416/@comment-452-20140509113813

Iynque, I got the joke and thought your comment was funny.

Love Robin wrote: "Staff" at any time and usage should ONLY be applied to Wikia Staff. Sorry, but the word predates Wikia considerably: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staff

My earliest personal encounter with the term is likely to have been the "Staff Room" at school, before wikis and the web were invented. And while the school administrators did use that room, not all Staff in that room were Admins.

The "Admins" were small in number and worked in the "Office", while the majority of "Staff" were teachers who worked in each "individual classroom". You could get in trouble with any member of Staff, but if you were sent to the Office, then you were in big trouble.

These terms are completely backwards on Wikia. I'm not saying the answer is to switch them, I'm just saying they're ambiguous, and that newcomers are likely to be confused by "Staff" and "Admin", which included myself.