User:Yatalu/Blog:Standard-bearer/en

Dear Brigadiers, Wikians, other viewers,

You have probably already been wondering what the little x behind "Standard-bearer" in Template:Wikiteam served for. Now here's the answer: nothing. We don't have a standard-bearer yet!

What is a standard-bearer?
In real life, the job of a standard-bearer has been around for a very long while. In the army or in parades, a standard-bearer carried the standard, flag or ensign for people to group around or to show the pride of a country. Historically, this job has always been both a risk and an honour, as the standard-bearer fills in a symbolic position in the middle of the attention.

On our wiki, the standard-bearer will also be a single person, with one specific task: carrying the responsibility of the word of the week, to pass their flag over from one language to the one next in line. Don't know what this "word of the weeks" is? Then read up on it here.

Rights and tasks
Now of course this kind of position is more complicated than meets the eye: what will this person do and what rights will they get on the wiki? The standard-bearer's tasks consist of:
 * Making sure every participating language has an up-to-date WOTW explanation page
 * Supervising when new languages want to join the rotating WOTW system
 * Starting and ending nominations and votes, + writing the final poll results
 * Together with the administrators, approve/reject the nominated words (if some are dubious)
 * Archiving the old voting pages before a language starts a new round

That's it for the duties. As for the rights: apart from the standard-bearers voice in the voting process of the word of the week, there are no actual user rights that come with this position. However, there are still some advantages...

These include: being one step closer to the administrators, being the person to address about anything WOTW-related, getting your own introduction page like Project:Administrators and Project:Moderators as well as being listed in wikiteam, and getting 2 nominations for every language you have babel level ≥ 1.

Who will be our standard-bearer?
That is up to you to decide! Check the requirements below and nominate yourself or a person you think is suitable for the job.


 * 1) Must be a WLB member
 * 2) * Preferably with 1+ edits on this wiki
 * 3) * Preferably for at least one week before this blog
 * 4) Languages: knows English and at least one more language
 * 5) * Preferably 3 or more languages (but not obligatory)
 * 6) * Bonus if he/she knows languages from different language families
 * 7) Must be okay with being nominated
 * 8) * Nominating yourself? That's all fine then
 * 9) * Nominating someone else? We'll point them at this blog and ask to approve your nomination

After nominations have been sent in, User:Jr Mime and myself will check the nominations and see who we find the most suitable candidate(s). If we are to pick more then one suitable person, we will return this to you and open up a poll for our top 2-3 candidates.

You can nominate more then one person. Please also bold the user name in your post so it's easier to find. We'll accept nominations until August 5 or until we reach 10 candidates. Go for it!