Wikiversity:Curators

A Wikiversity curator is a user who has rights to manage content on Wikiversity, including delete, rollback, import from other wikis, and protect pages.

How does one become a curator?
Any Wikiversity participant willing to do a lot of dull and boring work for the community can become a curator. If you have a good editing record, then you are likely to be trusted and granted the privileges and responsibilities of curatorship. If you are still interested in being a curator, here is the process:

Deletion of pages
Curators can delete pages including images, categories, templates, etc. Deletion is subject to policy. Deletion requests may be submitted by any user at Requests for Deletion.

Deleting a page does not actually remove it from the database. It is merely invisible to non-custodians and can be restored at request, which may be submitted at Requests for Deletion. Page deletions and restorations can be monitored by viewing the deletion log. Curators may delete pages, but they do not have undelete rights.

Before you delete a page, read: Welcome templates. See also: Deletion policy.

Edit and move protection of pages
Curators can protect pages to prevent editing. There are two types of page protection: semi-protection, which prevents anonymous and new users from editing, and full protection, which prevents all non-custodians and non-curators from editing. A page can also be protected to prevent moving. Page protection can be lifted by any custodian or curator upon request, which may be submitted at Request custodian action. Page protections and unprotections can be monitored by viewing the protection log.

Rollback
Curators have a rollback tool to revert the last change or group of changes made to a page by the same user. There is no option to provide an edit summary when using this tool. Instead, a summary such as "Reverted edits by $2 (talk) to last version by $1 using rollback" will be used automatically. This tool is primarily used to respond to obvious vandalism. For other edit reversions, the rollback button should not be used and a good edit summary should be provided.

Import
Curators have access to the Import tool, to bring materials from Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Beta.Wikiversity, Wikiquote, and Wikisource.

How are curators expected to act?
Curators are supposed to follow the same principles as every other user, including being civil, assuming good faith, and understanding what Wikiversity is. They are expected to act professionally, and to respect policy and community consensus.

For a discussion of possible failure to act professionally, see a proposed recusal policy at Recusal.

Problems with curators
If you have a question about an action (page deletion, page protection, violation of Wikiversity policy or some other action that does serious damage to the project) by a Wikiversity curator, the first thing to do is leave a message on that curator's user discussion page. Curators should always be able to explain how their actions support the Wikiversity project. If you cannot get satisfaction from discussion with the curator, follow up with their mentor. Actions of a curator are ultimately the responsibility of their mentor(s). Any custodian may remove a curator's rights, but first try to resolve all curator problems by discussion. Post a request at Request custodian action if discussion does not successfully resolve the issue.

Wikiversity

 * No shrines for vandals
 * Policies
 * How to be a Wikimedia sysop/Wikiversity

MediaWiki/Wikimedia

 * How to be a Wikimedia sysop
 * MediaWiki Administrator's Handbook