Gamepedia Help Wiki:Wiki guardian



A wiki guardian is a special user who has claimed a wiki that had no previous admin, or the previous admin is no longer with the wiki. A user with this role can be identified by having a special label on the profile page near the username. The role comes with the same permission set as the normal administrator status but is in general granted at the very early stages of a wiki's existence, or because of a lack of an existing editorial community.

While in general, wiki administrators are no more than registered wiki users, who have been trusted with janitorial responsibilities, wiki guardians are also expected to be proactive in recruiting editors from within the game community, being active on forums, and/or social media. They are in general expected to take more of a leadership role while establishing the wiki than an administrator on a more mature wiki. They are also expected to be active editors, adding game content, and working with the community in establishing the wiki's "style".

If a wiki guardian is inactive on a wiki, the wiki manager assigned to that wiki may decide to remove their permissions. There is no fixed period of inactivity after which wiki guardians are demoted, demotion is at wiki managers' discretion. Should that guardian become active again, their rights can be restored.

In every other way, wiki guardians are the same as administrators. Wiki guardians are encouraged to read the administrators guide.