Community Central:Janitors


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Janitors are Wikia users that help to keep everything tidy across Wikia. Janitors have the same abilities as administrators, but on all Wikia wikis, and a few extra specialist tools for jobs that need to be done across the site. Janitors do not replace or "outrank" admins; the local community and the local admins are responsible for their wiki, but janitors can help with cleaning cross-Wikia spam, reverting vandalism on quiet or inactive wikis, and can give help and advice on using the advanced features of the wiki.

Overview
Janitors are...


 * users who are involved with the Wikia community in general, not just one wiki,
 * users who are trusted to use admin tools to clean up and prevent spam and vandalism across all Wikia projects,
 * able to fulfil many of the duties of Wikia staff, when a single project needs help,
 * able to track cross-wiki spammers, block them, and dispose of their garbage.

Current janitors are listed at Special:Listusers/janitors

Policy
This is a maintenance role and janitors do not have any say over local content or policy discussions. Janitors should respect local policy even if it is different from a typical Wikia, and seek staff opinion if necessary.

When to take action
This user right is only to be used:
 * for obvious cross-wiki vandalism cleanup
 * vandal blocking if no active admin available locally
 * for obvious spam (cross-wiki spambot cleanup especially).
 * when community or local admins request help (editing interface messages, banning trolls if no admin available).
 * when the Wikia Community Team requests help with cross-wiki janitorial tasks

General rules and guidelines

 * Always be polite.
 * Use clear edit summaries without jargon. Make sure you overwrite the 'content' text on deletion with 'spam' or another summary, so that abusive content doesn't show up on recentchanges and in the logs (the same is true for reverting edits by abusively named accounts, it's better manually revert such edits).
 * If an local administrator reverts you, do not revert back. Seek a staff opinion.
 * Remember, local tasks are for local admins. Unless a wiki is inactive, there are no current admins, or you are asked to help, then let the local admins do their job.  This is especially true of large wikis with an established admin group.
 * Communicate, communicate, communicate. If in doubt about whether an action would be welcome, or if someone objects to your cleanup of obvious spam or vandalism, use the Community Portal, Forums, Main Page talk, or admin's talk pages to discuss the issue.  Don't try to convince them to "want" your services, just explain, in a friendly way, why you are helping.