The following policy document seeks to codify a part of the Tech Team's operation that has been a de facto rule for three years, but has never been formally written down anywhere. The following will be an amendment to http://05command.wikidot.com/staff-purview, going at the bottom of the page.
Technical Purview
In addition to the above circumstances, the Tech Team claims purview of certain pages in the theme: and component: categories. Such pages are considered to be under technical purview if the author is currently banned or if the author has been absent for a period of six months or longer. This is because pages in these categories are used widely across the site, and may need fixes or changes to work properly as site usage and browser conditions evolve. As with normal staff control, should an author return from absence or be unbanned, authority over their pages will return to them.
Tech Team control can be used to make edits in the following ways:
- Updates in response to changes to pages in the nav: category or edits to the site theme. These changes should maintain the page's original aesthetic and appearance to the greatest degree possible.
- Fix issues with the page that are in violation of the CSS Policy or Technical Content Policy, or in response to edits to those policies.
- Fix issues with the page as a result of changes to its base theme, Wikidot's styling/function, or browser-related changes to CSS.
- Minor aesthetic edits for the improvement of the theme or component. This should preserve the original aesthetic of the theme, or function of the component. This line should only be used sparingly.
Additionally, the Tech Team shall be responsible for rewrites of any pages that fall under the jurisdiction described above, rather than the Rewrite Team.
Examples of the each of the above circumstances (These are not hypothetical examples, but actual instances in which the Tech Team has behaved as described above.)
- Sigma-9 has been edited to change the color of a.visited links, previously left unchanged. This means all visited links on the site are a dark red color, rather than appropriate colors for their themes. The Tech Team edits all pages they have purview over to have appropriate colors, and contacts authors to instruct them to make similar edits.
- The CSS Policy forbids the extreme usage of !important tags. A theme by a banned user contains over thirty-six !important tags, which is greatly excessive. The Tech Team edits the theme so that it instead contains two !important tags.
- This bullet point has not been used in the past. Outside of a significant change to Black Highlighter, or a major browser changing CSS interpretation in an incompatible way, this bullet is not expected to come up in the future, but is included for completeness.
- A change to the Interwiki allows for direct styling of the module. The Tech Team edits the themes of banned users so that the Interwiki modules of those themes match their sidebars, although the themes used CSS filters which were still functional and did not violate the CSS Policy.
Discussion of this amendment will last for one week.
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can I get some nice "no signatures on my forum"
sigma-9 css machine broke
understandable have a nice day