Wikiversity:Probationary custodians

Probationary custodians
When probationary custodians have a mentor, they will be listed on this page, starting their one month probationary period. If the mentor is satisfied with the performance of the probationary custodian, members of the community will be able to participate in a comment period at the end of the month-long probation period.

How does one become a probationary custodian?
If you are still interested in custodianship, here is the process it takes:

What is a mentor?
A mentor is someone who is verified by the community to be trusted to use custodian privileges. Their duty as a mentor is to watch over their probationary custodian. By being a mentor, their admin rights are symbolically shared with their mentored probationary custodian, and all actions of the probationary custodian are considered as part of the actions of the mentor. The mentor is responsible for each of the admin actions and can reverse them at will without discussion as if they were their own.

Terminating probationary custodianship
A probationary custodianship comes from the idea of probation. As such, probationary custodians are not given free reign to do whatever they want. If a probationary custodian is seen to be in gross violation of community standards, then they may be terminated at any time by their mentor or after a 5 day discussion held by the community on if the probationary custodian has consensus to continue on probation.

Like custodianship, probationary custodianship is a duty and not a right. They serve only as long as the community has trust in their abilities to use the privileges appropriately. Since they have not been elected, they are cautioned to not make any decision that may be deemed controversial or disruptive. They are given the administrative privileges so that they can learn how to use them, not to use them freely and whenever they want.

Reading list
New custodians should become familiar with Category:Wikiversity policy and Category:Wikiversity administration. They should also consider participating in How to be a Wikimedia sysop, although this is optional.