User blog:BaconBoi1111/Administrator’s Help Guide

Hi, welcome to the blog! In here, you can find advice on how to be a good administrator for your favourite community!

Becoming an Administrator
In order to become an administrator, you need to be a respectful member of the community. You might also need to be a moderator first, under circumstances, and it’s quite usual in some wiki communities. You also need a bureaucrat, or anyone with certain global roles, to promote you to administrator. You can also get the role by adopting an inactive wiki, or Creating a new Wiki (you get bureaucrat with administrator rights if you create a wiki, and sometimes you get it to if you adopt it). Personally I recommend you to be at an advanced level of editing before applying, or it might end up difficult for you.

Administrator Help
If you are now an administrator for your wiki, congratulations! If you’re still a bit unsure on how to get started as an administrator, you can go ahead and fix up some pages to start— remember, administrators have both rights of a Content AND Thread moderator (but it can only give/revoke thread moderator rights), so you’re free to do both jobs, and maybe check the “recent changes” for rule breakers (and now you have power to blocking, as well as access to the admin dashboard!)

You can also give assistance to new users and users who requests for it, add content, and create new important announcements. Discussions moderators can do it as well, but admins have a bit more power in it. They can also edit the community’s skin and format, and switch the controls, for example enabling the message walls function, or the requirement of contributors to log in.

Demotion
You may get demoted as an admin, by a bureaucrat or people with certain Global Roles. You can get demoted because of either inactivity or because you’re breaking the rules, such as insulting another user, performing an unfair block, spamming, vandalising, and other reasons.

Hopes this helps,  BaconBoi1111 talk