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Since I won't be around forever, here are some instructions about how I have tried to manage it, so it functions properly:
You need the help of the staff and the community, so do your best to show proper respect, be polite to, and get along well with other staff members, and to foster a healthy productive atmosphere.
When monitoring for suspicious edits, use the Special:RecentChanges page, and possibly the "hide patrolled edits" option. You can also mark the edits that you have checked as patrolled, so several staff members do not have to do the same work.
Block rule-breakers who cause more trouble than they are worth keeping around, for long periods of time, or your unnecessary workloads will dramatically increase.
Highlight important threads that need community input, but try to be careful with doing so, so you do not spam unimportant ones.
If necessary, clarify the titles before doing so, such as writing "Naruto: Statistics revision", so people know what the thread is about from the title, and those who know about the topic can help out.
Post new copied request threads when the old ones are full. Update the front page, welcome message, and wiki navigation bar links afterwards.
Close threads when they have been resolved, and simultaneously remove any potential highlights of the topics in question.
Lock pages that attract vandalism, or that feature very popular/controversial characters.
DarkLK should generally only be disturbed regarding questions about how the tiering system works, and the statistics of high-tier profiles.
Keep Lord Kavpeny informed about the most important questions that have been raised within the wiki, even if he does not reply for over a week. He will get to them eventually.
Preferably avoid messing with rules, systems, and settings, that already work reasonably well, as you might easily mess things up, make the managing work harder, or the wiki structure worse.
Keep track of that people use the source code editor, and not the visual mode editor, as it usually messes up the page structures for other editors, and if they do not, inform them on their walls about this as a polite warning.
When changing the attack potency and durability of a character, keep track of if you need to modify the striking strength as well.
If an important calculation needs to be checked up, or performed, to properly scale a certain fictional franchise, politely ask the calculation group members on their message walls.
Check up that new profile pages have the "Characters" (or "Weapons"), and "Tier" categories, along with one for the name of the series (for example, "Naruto").
If you or somebody else in the staff finds a new potential recruit, check what the other staff members think in private messages. Then ask a bureaucrat (currently Lord Kavpeny) to interview the nominee, and inform them about what they have to do as a staff member, also in private.
It is usually better to let a potential administrator candidate start as a forum moderator, or content moderator (depending on their wiki focus), and see how well they are doing for a while, before promoting them further.
New staff members need appropriate username colours, and new calculation group members also need the (non-automatic) calc group userpage tag.
You need the help of the staff and the community, so do your best to show proper respect, be polite to, and get along well with other staff members, and to foster a healthy productive atmosphere.
When monitoring for suspicious edits, use the Special:RecentChanges page, and possibly the "hide patrolled edits" option. You can also mark the edits that you have checked as patrolled, so several staff members do not have to do the same work.
Block rule-breakers who cause more trouble than they are worth keeping around, for long periods of time, or your unnecessary workloads will dramatically increase.
Highlight important threads that need community input, but try to be careful with doing so, so you do not spam unimportant ones.
If necessary, clarify the titles before doing so, such as writing "Naruto: Statistics revision", so people know what the thread is about from the title, and those who know about the topic can help out.
Post new copied request threads when the old ones are full. Update the front page, welcome message, and wiki navigation bar links afterwards.
Close threads when they have been resolved, and simultaneously remove any potential highlights of the topics in question.
Lock pages that attract vandalism, or that feature very popular/controversial characters.
DarkLK should generally only be disturbed regarding questions about how the tiering system works, and the statistics of high-tier profiles.
Keep Lord Kavpeny informed about the most important questions that have been raised within the wiki, even if he does not reply for over a week. He will get to them eventually.
Preferably avoid messing with rules, systems, and settings, that already work reasonably well, as you might easily mess things up, make the managing work harder, or the wiki structure worse.
Keep track of that people use the source code editor, and not the visual mode editor, as it usually messes up the page structures for other editors, and if they do not, inform them on their walls about this as a polite warning.
When changing the attack potency and durability of a character, keep track of if you need to modify the striking strength as well.
If an important calculation needs to be checked up, or performed, to properly scale a certain fictional franchise, politely ask the calculation group members on their message walls.
Check up that new profile pages have the "Characters" (or "Weapons"), and "Tier" categories, along with one for the name of the series (for example, "Naruto").
If you or somebody else in the staff finds a new potential recruit, check what the other staff members think in private messages. Then ask a bureaucrat (currently Lord Kavpeny) to interview the nominee, and inform them about what they have to do as a staff member, also in private.
It is usually better to let a potential administrator candidate start as a forum moderator, or content moderator (depending on their wiki focus), and see how well they are doing for a while, before promoting them further.
New staff members need appropriate username colours, and new calculation group members also need the (non-automatic) calc group userpage tag.
