Qualitipedia staff

Qualitipedia is managed by a set of bureaucrats who oversee the 'network' aspect, and various sets of admins who oversee each wiki. The bureaucrats have access to the most restricted tools of a wiki used to change core settings, manage the ranks of administrators and provide leadership to all wikis as they are needed, while the administrators oversee everyday tasks and keep wikis not only stable, but ideally improving. The modern form of Qualitipedia recognizes that there are deep problems in content and approach, and so the staff do what they can to improve the content and the conduct of the wikis.

Role and oversight
Ideally users only act as members of staff when they have to, ie, to address a content or conduct issue. While staff on wikis have wide discretion to take actions, they are always subject to appeal and community discussion as the staff are directly responsible for putting into place what the community wants, and taking initiative to better that goal. Any member of staff, just like any user should bring something positive to the wiki even if they vary in skills and availability. Staff may be removed if they are unable to better the wikis through the powers of their position, and it is best practice to resign from staff if they are unable to do so and know that won't change. Otherwise they will not be removed for an odd mistake any more than a user should not be blocked for making a mistake. In either case if there is a problem, you are free to a) make a post describing the issue locally or on here (especially if it is cross-wiki), or b) contact a bureaucrat in confidence.

Admins are not dictators and should not behave as such. However, when an admin makes a ruling on a page, that decision should be respected unless appealed by community consensus or overturned by a bureaucrat. If it was a bureaucrat's decision, it can be reviewed collectively by QP bureaucrats or by the consensus of the community in discussion. The decision of a collective admin team larger than the bureaucrat team will also be considered. The resulting decision is final.

Membership
These are the bureaucrats with title across all Qualitipedia. Administrators are trusted users from the local community promoted to help out administering and leading the given community. Other positions such as moderator are appointed on an as-needed basis. The administration team of each wiki can be found on a given wiki's main page.

In detail, the bureaucrats are:
 * DarkMatterMan4500 - Leader of Qualitipedia. Gandles many counter vandalism duties and is regularly involved on Miraheze Meta
 * Blazikeye535 - Co-leader. Trusted assistant and senior admin across QP.

Oversight from Miraheze
Miraheze itself is overseen by users known as mh:meta:global sysops and mh:meta:stewards. These users may be seen investigating issues requiring access to IP addresses or other deeply technical matters. The average user on these wikis should not have to go to Miraheze Meta, as almost everything can be locally handled on this wiki or even on the specific wiki if it only affects one. In certain emergencies however, contacting them may be necessary. Please defer to the guidance of wiki staff when these cases are appropriate.

Becoming a bureaucrat/administrator
All positions are appointed. If a more elegant process is suggested and popular enough with the community, this section may change. Otherwise all advanced rights are granted at the discretion of the bureaucrats, and basic rights are granted by the administrators. You may request rights and make your case why you need or want them locally with a wiki's Request for Permissions page, or through the wiki's main talk page.

Bureaucrats are highly trusted users who are not appointed lightly. At this time the only successful appointment strategy is through a Qualitipedia request for comment.