Help:Promotions

Promotions rounds are announced in newsletters, and they begin whenever we feel we need to bring on more team members to keep things running smoothly. This is usually a couple times a year.

When a round starts, you may nominate yourself for a position by making a new thread here. Explain what position you're running for and why, what you've done for the wiki, what you can add to the team, and other useful things like that. You may also nominate another user.

However! We do have a few requirements, so please make sure you or the person you're nominating meets them first. ("I'll try to make the requirements by the time promotions are over" does not count; you must meet them before you post your nomination thread.)

The edit requirement to run for threadmod is 7k edits total.

The edit requirement to run for contentmod is 300 article edits. (You can check your article edits here)

For the threadmod you are required to have been active on the wiki for at least three months prior to the start of promotions. Right now, contentmod has no time requirement, but consistent activity is definitely still a plus.

And finally, a note that we may be flexible with these requirements if your contributions are significant or if we aren't able to find a suitable candidate among those who do fit the requirements. We also may end up promoting nobody at all, if we can't find someone we feel would do a good job.

The process for selecting new powerusers is as follows: The existing poweruser team looks through all the nomination threads, and we narrow our options down to a handful, based on activity, helpfulness, good track record, etc. We account for public support and especially public critique — we don't have a voting system, but if you have information about a user that you feel makes them an unfit moderator, we encourage you to post about it and let us know. Encouragement and reasons you think a user is qualified help as well!
Once we have a selected handful of potential candidates, we discuss among ourselves extensively, and finally come to a consensus.

Administrators are promoted up from a moderator position, and bureaucrats up from admin. You cannot run for either of these, and we will never be accepting nominations.

That's about it. Good luck to everyone!