User:SnowedLightning/Guide

Introduction

 * Hello! If you're viewing this, then welcome to the wiki! My name is Jayce, and I'm one of the administrators here. I've decided to rewrite and vastly expand upon a tumblr post that I made in October of 2014, as an introduction and in-depth tutorial to the wiki! Many things have changed since then, prompting the expansion of this page.

Founding and Adoption

 * Warriors Wiki was founded on June 12, 2006 by Oglog. In November of that same year, Kitsufox joined the wiki, and soon after, she adopted it. That began the long journey to make it what it is today. She was later joined in 2007 by Eulalia, and while both users have since departed from the website, their legacy lives on, and their influence and creations are still used to this day.

Chat Moderators

 * First up on the list of staff are the chat moderators! These users are vital to keeping peace in the chat room, and monitoring it while they are on the wiki. While our chat can be fairly inactive, there are times where it can be too much for one staff member to control. To obtain chat moderator rights, a user must fill out a request for chat moderator rights application.


 * After that, an administrator can either chose to endorse or not endorse an applicant. Should the administrator in question endorse a candidate, they will be subjected to voting from the other chat moderators, rollbacks, administrator, and bureaucrats. All voting is done on majority ruling, unless a user violates the chat room rules or other policies during their endorsement period.


 * Listed below are all current and former chat moderators on Warriors Wiki.

Rollbacks

 * Rollbacks are the next step up on the rights tier here. They possess the ability to "rollback" an edit; this means that if a string of edits is done by one user (such as vandalism), the rollback tool will eliminate all of those edits with one click! To obtain rollback rights, a user must fill out a request for rollback rights application. Normally, a user must have already been a chat moderator, but exceptions have been made in the past for extremely exceptional users and situations where users cannot access the chatroom.


 * Listed below are all current and former rollbacks on Warriors Wiki.

Administrators and Bureaucrats

 * Warriors Wiki has had many administrators and bureaucrats, each of them giving their time and love to the wiki in their own special ways. To obtain these rights, a user must fill out a request for adminship form. While in some cases, RfAs are unsuccessful, a user may later on obtain those rights due to other circumstances, such as lack of activity in other administrators. A user must have already obtained chat moderator and rollback rights before they are permitted to obtain administrator and bureaucrat status.


 * By proxy, user who is an administrator or bureaucrat will possess the powers of the tiers below them. This would mean an administrator would also be classified as a chat moderator and rollback, but due to which tier ranks highest, the 'admin' tag would show up on their profile.


 * Administrator and bureaucrats, while normally grouped together, are actually different rankings. A bureaucrat has the ability to promote chat moderators, rollbacks, administrators, and other bureaucrats. An administrator, on the other hand, cannot promote rollbacks, other administrators, and bureaucrats; they are only permitted to promote chat moderators.


 * Listed below are all current and former administrators and bureaucrats on Warriors Wiki.

Content Projects

 * The projects handle the core content of the wiki. These are projects that handle mainspace articles, such as Into the Wild, Firestar, Prey, or 2011. Each group of articles has their own respective project to which they belong, and each project is lead by a group of highly skilled, active, and dedicated users.


 * Each Project has their own grading system, and they all follow the order of: planned, started, bronze, silver, and gold. Please see the project's individual guidelines for in-depth ways to compile a respective project's article. To obtain each rank, the following qualifications must be met:


 * Planned; 0 ; initial grading upon page creation. User can rank this without a nomination.
 * Started; 1 ; article must have basic formatting and information starts to compile on the page. User can rank this without a nomination.
 * Bronze; 2 ; article is almost complete, but might be missing sections or small gaps of information. User can rank this without a nomination.
 * Silver; 3 ; article must be complete at the time of the nomination, and articles going for silver ranking must always be nominated. Complete includes quotes, proper citations, and a complete family tree to the best of your ability. User cannot rank this without a nomination.
 * Gold; 4 ; the only way to obtain a gold ranking is for the article to have been featured. For articles that have been featured, but were not supported for gold nomination as well (due to lack of summaries, incomplete sections, ect), they can be nominated for gold once the article is complete at the time of the nomination. User cannot rank this without a nomination.

Books
 Current Status: Open 


 * Leader: Appledash
 * Deputy: Splook
 * Senior Warriors: None
 * Important Links: Operations Page, Guidelines, Grading List, Current Featured Article, Senior Warrior Nominations.
 * Grading Categories: Planned, Started, Bronze, Silver, Gold
 * How to Join: Leave a join request on their talk page.


 * Project:Books is one of the "backbone projects" of the wiki, due to the content of the project's articles. Included within this project are pages for canon books in the series. This does not include anything related to fanfiction, fan-aspects, or characters that are not canon in the Warriors series. Examples of articles that Project:Books handles are:

Characters
 Current Status: Open   Often Shortened to "PC" 


 * Leader: Stealthfire star
 * Deputy: SnowedLightning
 * Senior Warriors: Appledash and Berry
 * Important Links: Guidelines, Frequently Asked Questions, Prospective Featured Articles, Current Featured Article, Senior Warrior Nominations.
 * Grading Categories: Planned, Started, Bronze, Silver, Gold
 * How to Join: Leave a join request on their talk page.


 * Project:Characters is another one of the "backbone projects" of the wiki, again due to the content of the articles it manages. This project maintains and takes care of articles regarding canonical characters in the series. If there is a discrepancy with a character's description, all comments come to this project. This does not include anything related to fanfiction, fan-aspects, or characters that are not canon in the Warriors series. Examples of articles that Project:Characters handles are:

Reality
 Current Status: Open   Often Shortened to "PR" 


 * Leader: Atelda
 * Deputy: None; Currently searching for an active user
 * Senior Warriors: None
 * Important Links: Guidelines, Operations List, Current Featured Article.
 * Grading Categories: Planned, Started, Bronze, Silver, Gold
 * How to Join: Leave a join request on their talk page.


 * Project:Reality is another one of the "backbone projects" of the wiki, again due to the content of the articles it manages. This project is fairly new, having taken some of Project:World's workload, and this project maintains and takes care of articles of realistic aspects of the series. This does not include anything related to fanfiction, fan-aspects, or characters that are not canon in the Warriors series. Examples of articles that Project:Reality handles are:

World
 Current Status: Open   Often Shortened to "PW" 


 * Leader: Atelda
 * Deputy: None; Currently searching for an active user
 * Senior Warriors: None
 * Important Links: Guidelines, Operations Page, Current Featured Article, Senior Warrior Nominations.
 * Grading Categories: Planned, Started, Bronze, Silver, Gold
 * How to Join: Leave a join request on their talk page.


 * Project:World is another one of the "backbone projects" of the wiki, again due to the content of the articles it manages. This project maintains and takes care of articles related to the series, but do not fall under a Book or Character category. This does not include anything related to fanfiction, fan-aspects, or characters that are not canon in the Warriors series. Examples of articles that Project:World handles are:

Adopt a User
 Current Status: Closed   Often Shortened to "AaU" 


 * Leader: None; Project is Closed
 * Deputy: None; Project is Closed
 * Senior Warriors: None; Project is Closed


 * Project:Adopt a User is a closed project, meaning the mission has been completed and the project disbanded. This is based on an adoption process, where each new user was assigned a mentor to teach them the ways, rules, and ins-and-outs of the wiki. Membership was not mandatory, and some users even had more than one apprentice at a time.


 * While the project's closure means there is no longer an official mentoring program for the wiki as a whole, there has always been an air of unofficial mentorship between some of the newer users and the older ones, and the senior members will always be willing to take you underneath their wing and teach you what they know. This is, in fact, how many of the elder users now got their start back when they were new.

Awards
 Current Status: Open   Often Shortened to "PA" 


 * Leader: Berry
 * Deputy: SnowedLightning
 * Senior Warriors: None
 * Important Links: Guidelines.
 * How to Join: Leave a join request on their talk page.


 * While still fairly new, Project:Awards was created to honor and recognize the hard-working users of this wiki with banners for their userpages. These awards are to be created and awarded by individual users, and should be given after clear and proper thinking. This project, due to the absence of interested users, has halted in its progress, but activity should spark up when the time is right.

Character Art
 Current Status: Open   Often Shortened to "PCA" 


 * Leader: SnowedLightning
 * Deputy: Jayfrost
 * Senior Warriors: Appledash, Bramblesnow, Burntclaw, Icebreeze, Splook, Stealthfire star, and The Fox Girl
 * Important Links: Guidelines, Tutorials, Image Approval Page, Image Tweak Page, Image Nomination Page, Senior Warrior Nominations, Mentorship Program.
 * Grading Categories: Planned, Started, Bronze, Silver, Gold
 * How to Join: Leave a join request on their talk page.


 * Project:Character Art, often shortened to "Charart", is the most active project on the wiki. This project requires many more leads than a normal project, due to the massive amount of members and the processes that each lead (collective term for the senior warriors, the leader, and the deputy) does. Leads can approve images, decline them, CBA them, and add them to character articles once they are approved.


 * PCA also has a mentor program for any and all members to take part in. It is currently lead by Breezefeather.SC and The Fox Girl. This mentorship program is not a requirement for becoming a warrior or senior warrior, and will not be held against you, should you chose to not take part. Our news section is run by Appledash, and if there are things that need to be mentioned, it should be addressed on her tak page.


 * The goal of PCA is to create images for every article that we can. Should there be a disagreement over a character's description, it should not be brought to PCA; it should go directly to PC. PCA creates each and every image presented on the articles here by themselves, and they all go though a rigorous and often heat-filled approval process. Many of the editors here are also members of PCA, as it is often considered the "easiest" project to handle, due to users working with art programs. Membership in other projects is not required to advance in PCA.


 * PCA has genderless blanks for the following ranks:


 * Examples of PCA's work can be found below:

Userboxes
 Current Status: Maintenance   Often Shortened to "PU" 


 * Organizers: Atelda and SnowedLightning


 * Examples of PCA's work can be found below: