Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-25428589-20181007231724/@comment-10502460-20181009095849

In that case, I'll outline how I think it should work based on your proposal:


 * We introduce the Content Moderator and Discussions Moderator roles as co-equal positions, since that is clearly how Fandom regards them.
 * Since the emphasis is on helping users assist admins and potentially develop admin skills based on their specific forte, both according to what you've said and Fandom, you can apply for one, the other or both. However, if you apply for and get one, you have to wait two months before you can apply for the other. This is simply to keep our activity from getting clogged up with users who change their minds immediately after their applications are closed.
 * Joint applications are granted wholly or not at all, so no voting Neutral and saying "I think you're a really good and active user, but I'm not sure you're ready to have the power to delete pages yet. You could make a good Discussions Moderator though." This is to prevent multiple issuers including people who aren't ready for either role getting passed for one because some people who didn't have the heart to tell them they didn't like them for either role tried to say yes for just one as a sort of mental concession; if you apply for both roles, you're either getting them or not, and if not then you have to reapply for one or both again.
 * If your application does not get enough support votes for you to be granted whatever rights you are applying for, you have to wait a month to apply again.
 * Since these roles probably won't have that many people filling them to begin with, they'll in general be treated as different flavors of the same positions, and have the same staff signature color, user template, etc. (the user template will just say, for example, "HopelessNightOwl is a Moderator on this wiki. Other moderators:"
 * One admin is appointed to be in charge of oversight of the moderators and feedback on their roles, and is sort of the crew leader for them.
 * The Moderator position is not a prerequisite for admin, but once you get moderator you have to wait four more months to apply for admin.
 * Since Content Moderator does have the Rollback right included and the rollback right is very useful for moderators to have in their toolkit, I would say Rollback should be required first before moderator. I'd recommend two months as Rollback as a prerequisite.
 * The namespace edit requirement breakdowns could be a sticky point. It could be tempting to say content mod applicants should have more article edits while discussion mod applicants should have more forum and blog posts, but I personally feel getting bogged down in such details would be more trouble than it's worth. It may be better to just say you have to have been active as a Rollback for two months and just leave it at that.