Whilst the departments are no longer set in stone for admin users, they are still there to provide guidelines. Admin users can specialise in a specific department if they so choose, or they can migrate and help out wherever they are needed.
This isn’t a set list and more duties can fall under each category. This is to give you an idea of how each department is separated. The Wizengamot doesn’t strictly follow these departments anymore either. Some users may work across the departments and help out wherever they can, but other users may want nothing to do with a department and can specify this. For example, a user may just want to sort characters and locations and want nothing to do with events. If they say they aren’t involved in AI duties, they would mean they’re not participating in preparing for events. Or if they say they aren’t in C&L, they’re not the user to be turning to when you need a forum sorted.
- Duties:
- This department handles the coding and unification of new pages, including adding categories, making sure templates are used for talk bubbles, helping users to repair or fix coding etc.
- They are also responsible for helping create new pages for events, removing old pages, and keeping roleplay pages, such as the three broomsticks, clean.
- After the school year, they will help clean up Hogwarts and remove roleplays, reset class pages for the next school year.
- They will also clear out the year level categories. Whilst it is a user’s own responsibility to update their character pages, we’ve noticed many forget to remove previous categories, so we sometimes end up with a thirty year old in the first year category, which makes it difficult for users to know who is in the first year. Thus, to prevent this, the Wizengamot does a sweep at the end of the school year before you are able to go to update their categories.
- This department is also responsible for the updating and upkeep of the wiki's policies, taking input from meetings and other departments, and updating the policies to reflect needed changes.
- OOC will be the ones to check characters that have both a page (with the adequate information) and a word bubble after sorting and ensure the trackers are being updated.
- Approving Characters and Locations in a reasonable time period. We do not expect instant sorting but knowingly leaving a user waiting for more than a few days is highly frowned upon. If forums are knowingly neglected continuously, then the admin user risks a warning.
- Locations need to be varied in scope. The only wiggle room is if the store is in another location. A wand store will most likely be denied as we have Ollivanders in each main area but another speakeasy might be approved in Hogsmeade even if there’s one in Diagon Alley and Lincliff city.
- They ensure each history meets DARP lore.
- They handle incoming peculiars and are the department that deals with peculiars the most compared to the other two.
- Ensuring each user is updating the store owner pages to ensure everyone is aware that a store is owned.