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. 

When a promotions 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, examples of work you have done to help the Wiki, etc. 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. You must meet these requirements before you post your nomination thread.

Discussions Moderators

• The edit requirement to run for discussions moderator is at least 3.5k discussions posts.

• You are required to have been active on the Wiki for at least three months prior to the start of the promotions round.

Content Moderators

• The edit requirement to run for content moderator is at least 300 article edits.

• You are required to have been active on the Wiki for at least three months prior to the start of the promotions round.

• You must make consistent, helpful edits on articles according to the Editing Guide.

• Because of the nature of the contentmod position and the team's current need for more active contentmods, promotions for this position run differently than others. Instead, if you wish to apply for the position, please contact SpaceshipEarth on Discord (spaceshipearth#3412) with your full Wiki username, article edit count, and reasoning for why you want to run, how you believe you could benefit the Wiki, etc. Your reasoning will then be forwarded to the rest of the poweruser team, where we will vote on whether or not to promote you to the position. If the majority of the team agrees that you would be a good fit for content moderator, we will promote you and announce your promotion on the next newsletter. 

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 public 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 without first being a moderator, and we will never be accepting nominations.

That's about it. Good luck to everyone!