Supervisors

Categories: WikiTree Help | WikiTree Supervisors

Contents 1 Powers 2 Responsibilities 3 Requirements 3.1 Nomination 3.2 Resignation and Termination

Powers

Supervisors are a special class of volunteers who are entrusted with a few extraordinary "Super Powers":

• Create and lead projects. Only Supervisors can be Project Leaders.

• Designate any 200-year-old profile as historically significant and transfer management to a project. This bypasses the normal process of Trusted List requests or merging through merge proposals and merge approvals and locks the profile's ID.

• Create and edit WikiTree Help Pages and Genealogy Help Pages to organize and guide the WikiTree community.

• Moderate G2G. Supers can edit questions, recategorize questions, edit answers, edit comments, close questions, hide inappropriate questions, and delete hidden questions.

• Request intervention on Unresponsive Profile Managers after 30 days instead of 60, and help maintain the Problem Member List.

• Block vandals and spammers and members who continually violate the Honor Code.

• Award "Super Star" badges to deserving members.

• Award and remove badges beyond the one-a-day limitation on "Family Star" and "Community Star" badges for normal members.

Supervisors also hear about new and forthcoming features sooner than average contributors, and have a deeper level of input on their development.

Responsibilities

With great power comes great responsibility.

Supervisors must be exemplars of our Honor Code. They must act with great care and sensitivity, and show respect for all members of the WikiTree community. This is not always easy.

Supervisors must be willing to help other WikiTree members who will be looking to them as leaders.

If a Supervisor is unclear about how something works or finds a problem they need to take responsibility for asking about it in G2G, alerting another Supervisor, and/or contacting a team member.

Requirements

To be a nominated, a member must:

• Sign the Honor Code.

• Express or demonstrate enthusiasm for the mission.

• Be active for at least two months. Usually much longer.

• Make valuable contributions beyond their own family tree. Supervisors are generally long-time genealogists who have completed a substantial amount of their own genealogy and moved on to helping others. If they haven't already started helping others, they shouldn't be nominated until they do.

• Make a variety of advanced contributions, including editing biographies and sources.

• Participate in a project or G2G.

• Actively collaborate with others in a friendly way. Courtesy is essential. An otherwise exemplary nominee should be disqualified if their messages to other members can sometimes be misinterpreted as unfriendly or pushy.

Nomination

Supervisors are nominated by current Supervisors.

The nomination is made in our private e-mail discussion group. It should include a few examples of why the person meets the requirements.

Other Supervisors have two days to object. Objections should be sent privately to the person who made the nomination and/or Chris.

After two days, the person who made the nomination or Chris should invite the person to view this page and consider whether they'll accept.

Resignation and Termination

Supervisors can resign their supervisory status at any time without it affecting their membership in the community. Being a Supervisor isn't a lifelong commitment. :-)

Termination may be necessary if a Supervisor can't be reached, is away from WikiTree for an extended period of time, or violates specific Supervisor requirements or general WikiTree policies.

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