User blog:Jasperchua99/Re:The admins of Kancolle Wikia

Forewords
This blog is a continuation of The admins of KanColle English Wikia as it pays tribute to the past, gives a brief history of KanColle English Wikia and provides information on the admins from Seventh Generation onwards

Generations

 * The Seventh generation
 * This Generation oversees the transfer of the wiki bureaucrat from CDRW to がか. and oversees the promotion of 1 admin and 2 content moderators

Roles of a staff member
They manage everything pertaining the human aspect
 * Discussion moderator
 * Patrol the wiki daily and revert vandalism.
 * Engage in community discussions, answer user questions.
 * Promote friendly and welcoming environment.
 * Remove inappropriate comments.
 * Punish troublemakers.

They take responsibilities for the quality of articles and the correctness of information
 * Content contributor
 * Post patch notes, update Recent Updates page.
 * Extract and upload new game resources, making use of multi-upload feature.
 * Provide translations.
 * Format and proofread draft content for ease of reading.
 * Perform verification on game mechanics, either by frontlining or statistical testing.

They research and develop the methods, tools and designs content contributors use.
 * Developer
 * Interpret API response, automatic data collection and game resources extraction methods.
 * Work on wiki automation and UX projects:
 * Design templates and layouts in HTML and wikitext.
 * Implement data forms in Lua.
 * Document templates, modules and layouts.
 * Create editing aids and automatic tools (Javascript, Lua, PHP, Python and Ruby are common choices).