Forum:New Community Roles

Hello folks, today Wikia has introduced two new community roles: Discussions Moderator and Content Moderator. I won't go in details, both the blog post and the help page explain the roles very well. I just wanted to bring this new change to the wiki attention because I think it's quite relevant for our wiki, especially for these reasons:


 * IIRC, we are using some custom scripts that "use" the rollback role in some ways and for that purpose we requested staff to change their privileges to add some new rights. I believe that change is now unnecessary and the "user right" should be reverted back to its original role, while the group should be "converted" in content moderators. Off course we can promote new rollbackers but once agains they will have less impactful power on the wiki.
 * Give the extensive use of the blog feature we have here, the role of "discussions moderator" can be useful IMO. Probably we should pick the candidates from the current chat moderators.
 * These two roles were created specifically to aid admins to manage the community and will address the problem that this wiki has sometimes of not having admins online. Basically, think of these groups as "junior admins".
 * With the creation of these new roles, a more definite user hierarchy/area of supervision will be established like shown in this picture.

Your thoughts.

Discussion
I'm not sure discussion moderators are that important, but content mods are vital. If there's no admin online, locking a page could be really helpful. I do think we need a crat to promote either of these rights, but Yata is active, so no problem.

17:32, January 14, 2016 (UTC)

We are in no need for discussion moderators. However, content moderators would most definitely be useful Roranoa Drake II (talk) 17:36, January 14, 2016 (UTC)

As I said we should contact staff and restore the original rollback rights and convert the current "rollbackers" to content moderators, since basically it's what they are now. We can then discuss if we need further "standard" rollbackers (since it's a quite minor role, but can come in handy) or other content moderators. Discussions moderators are somewhat less impactful here because we don't have either message wall or the new forum, therefore they are limited only to chat and blogs. Maybe we can promote some/all chat moderators to discussions moderators.

Blogs don't really need moderating. They're either fine or locked.

17:44, January 14, 2016 (UTC)

I agree that we don't really need discussion moderators. Content moderators are imo a great idea, though. And yes, changing our rollback rights back to normal would be a sound idea. 18:00, January 14, 2016 (UTC)