Tech Team
The Technical Team is the branch of the SCP Wiki concerned with implementing and maintaining the technical assets of the site and implementing new features. Additionally, the team is in charge of fixing any issues that arise, or reporting any site-wide bugs to Wikidot. More specifically, the Technical Team's responsibilities are:
- Maintaining technical aspects of the site (such as the site template, IRC bot, and core site components).
- Providing and/or implementing software expertise and assistance to other teams when necessary (such as contests and components).
- Fixing bugs on the site or contacting Wikidot about major issues that may arise.
- Running tech-related operations, such as Project Foundation and the creation/deletion of tags (implementation of tags is the responsibility of MAST).
- Determining and implementing policy on technical aspects of the Wiki.
If you have any questions or concerns, please inquire in #site11 or message a member of the team.
If there are issues with this page, please contact a Tech Team Member.
Ambassador Team
The Ambassador Team is the branch of the SCP Wiki concerned with facilitating communication between the English SCP Wiki and the International SCP Wikis. Additionally, the team is responsible for settling any issues which may arise that involve INT branches. More specifically, the Ambassador Team's responsibilities are:
- Keeping an open and friendly line of communication with the International SCP Wikis.
- Resolving conflicts between the branches, and act as a mediator in other conflicts if asked.
- Handling inter-branch conflicts between users.
- Handling inter-branch disciplinary issues.
- Working with unofficial branches to help them reach the requirements necessary to become official.
- Voting on new official branches.
If you have any questions or concerns, please inquire in the INT Discord Server or a member of the team. If you wish to create your own international branch, please see this guide or contact LadyKatie
Disciplinary Team
The Disciplinary Team is the branch of the SCP Wiki concerned with ensuring site behavior standards are met and enforced. Additionally, the team is responsible for punishing offending users and preventing disruptive individuals from engaging with the site further. More specifically, the Disciplinary Team's responsibilities are:
- Stopping disruptive conversations that occur on the forums.
- Editing inflaming or offensive posts to prevent harm to users.
- Delivering warnings to members who break rules.
- Reporting bannable offenses to the administration.
- Voting on and contributing to disciplinary discussions.
- Maintaining the Site Rules, with assistance of the administration.
If you have any questions or concerns, please inquire in #site17 or message a member of the team.
If there are issues with this page, please contact a Disciplinary Team Member.
Forum Criticism Team
The Forum Criticism Team is the staff team of the SCP Wiki concerned with providing critique on the Ideas Critique and Drafts Critique Forums. Additionally, they are in charge of responding to queries and moderating behavior in the Writing Help Forums and reporting offenses to the Disciplinary Team. More specifically, the Forum Criticism Team's responsibilities are:
- Responding to threads in the Ideas Critique forum:
- Ensuring that all concept threads follow the required reading template.
- Providing critique on threads where the author has reached out to request feedback.
- Addressing misleading, vague, vehement, or otherwise problematic feedback.
- Responding to threads in the Draft Critique forum:
- Ensuring that sandbox links are used, and full draft text is not posted to the forums.
- Ensuring that first-time authors provide evidence of greenlights upon seeking draft critique.
- Attempting to ensure that no draft thread goes without critique.
- Addressing problematic feedback as noted above.
- Moderating the Writing Help forums:
- Ensuring the forums are free of repeat threads and spam.
- Responding to queries in the Questions Desk and Research and Resources forums.
- Reporting offenses to the Disciplinary Team and site administration when appropriate.
- Maintaining How To Write An SCP in conjunction with the Site Criticism Team.
- Proposing changes to other existing guides or documentation as necessary, particularly the Criticism Policy.
This team is only responsible for unpublished articles. The team responsible for site critique is the Site Criticism Team, mentioned prior.
If you have any questions or concerns, please inquire in #thecritters or message a member of the team.
If there are issues with this page, please contact a Forum Criticism Team Member.
Site Criticism Team
The Site Criticism Team is the staff team of the SCP Wiki concerned with providing critique to published articles on the site. Additionally, it is their responsibility to ensure critique on published articles are kept up to standard. More specifically, the Site Criticism Team's responsibilities are:
- Responding to posted articles, and attempting to ensure no posted article (SCP/Tale/GoI Format) goes without critique.
- Keeping criticism at an acceptable level of quality by preventing dogpiling and countering bad advice with stronger ideas.
- Reporting continued criticism policy violations to the Disciplinary Team.
- Assisting the Rewrite Team by giving suggestions for improvement on articles.
- Maintaining How To Write An SCP in conjunction with the Forum Criticism Team.
- Proposing changes to other existing guides or documentation as necessary, particularly the Criticism Policy.
This team is only responsible for published articles. The team responsible for forum critique is the Forum Criticism Team, mentioned prior.
If you have any questions or concerns, please inquire in #thecritters or message a member of the team.
If there are issues with this page, please contact a Site Criticism Team Member.
Maintenance and Ancillary Staff Team
The Maintenance and Ancillary Staff Team (abbreviated as MAST) is the branch of the SCP Wiki concerned with maintaining and updating the site in order to ensure proper functionality. Additionally, the team is tasked with carrying out quality control and implementing elements to improve navigation, such as Wikiwalk footers and tags. More specifically, MAST's responsibilities are:
- Ensuring deletions are performed.
- Tagging of new pages. (The Tech Team will maintain responsibility for the creation of tags.)
- Maintaining staff information pages and guides, especially those that list staff members, and updating them when necessary.
- Moderating collaborative test logs. (This is a joint responsibility with the Rewrite Team.)
- Implementing large-scale navigation or discovery projects, including the wikiwalk footers at the bottom of articles.
- Interviewing Junior Staff which may be promoted in the next promotions cycle.
- Cleaning the sandbox site of vandalism, spam, or offensive content.
- Aiding other Staff Teams with large scale projects or undertakings which they may not have the staffpower to complete.
If you have any questions or concerns, please inquire in #site77 or message a member of the team.
If there are issues with this page, please contact a Maintenance and Ancillary Staff Team Member.
Harassment Team
This is not the place for reporting harassment. Please follow the instructions in the Anti-Harassment Policy.
The Anti-Harassment Team is the staff team of the SCP Wiki concerned with handling and counteracting harassment cases between users. In contrast to the Disciplinary Team, the Anti-Harassment Team's cases are not reported in an 05 thread and are strictly confidential. More specifically, the Anti-Harassment Team's responsibilities are:
- Investigating and dealing with harassment issues on the main site or IRC.
- Working with administrators, moderators, and chat operators to deal with issues, receiving complaints, and recommending courses of action when necessary.
- Acting as primary contacts for harassment complaints on both the main site and IRC.
- Maintaining the Anti-Harassment Policy.
Most members of the team are also chat operators, so that they can also deal with chat-based harassment.
If you would like to speak with the Anti-Harassment Team regarding miscellaneous issues, please inquire in #site17 or message a member of the team. If you wish to report harassment, please follow the instructions in the Anti-Harassment Policy.
If there are issues with this page, please contact an Anti-Harassment Team Member.
Licensing Team Hub
The Licensing Team is the staff team of the SCP Wiki concerned with handling and ensuring that copyright standards are upheld across the Wiki and its community. Additionally, the team is responsible for determining if content is stolen or plagiarized, and guaranteeing that all used media are attributed correctly and legally. More specifically, the Licensing Team's responsibilities are:
- Establishing the legality of images and texts used on the Wiki as a whole.
- Searching for license violations elsewhere on the Internet.
- Sending messages requesting license fixes or take-downs as appropriate.
- Being available & knowledgeable enough to answer questions on Creative Commons licensing, both to other staff and ordinary users.
Each team member is assigned to a particular site or content hub, such as Amazon or iTunes, which they will search regularly for SCP-related materials. When a team member finds a possible license violation, they should report to the Team Captain with the appropriate details.
Team members should then contact the violator themselves with a polite message about the violation and what needs to be done to correct it. Violations which need to be disputed with major companies (e.g. iTunes, Google Play, T-shirt websites, etc.) require direct input from the Team Captain first.
If you have any questions or concerns, please inquire in #site34 or message a member of the team.
If there are issues with this page, please contact a Licensing Team Member.
Rewrite Team Hub
The Rewrite Team is the staff team of the SCP Wiki concerned with overseeing and facilitating rewrites of articles within the deletion range. Additionally, they are tasked with the preservation and maintenance of older articles. More specifically, their responsibilities are:
- Handling, or appointing volunteers to handle, rewrites of articles in danger of deletion.
- Approving or supervising rewrite drafts made by volunteers, if necessary.
- Handling, or appointing volunteers to handle, approved cleanup and updates of old articles, under administrative guidelines or supervision.
- Suggesting articles to feature on the front page.
- Functioning as admin liaison when dealing with rewrites of 'classic' articles.
If you wish to rewrite an article, please read and follow the Rewrite Guide. If you have any questions or concerns, please inquire in #site17 or message a member of the team.
If there are issues with this page, please contact a Rewrite Team Member.
Community Outreach Hub
The Community Outreach Team (abbreviated as CO) is the staff team of the SCP Wiki concerned with handling communication between staff and the on-site community, as well as addressing and responding to site issues as a whole. Additionally, the team is designed to maintain pages that may need updating, as well as suggesting new ways to improve the site and boost creativity. More specifically, the CO Team's responsibilities are:
- Responding to newbie introduction threads.
- Being available to answer questions in #site17.
- Writing news for the front page.
- Keeping an active dossier of contest ideas.
- Maintaining the FAQ and the Guide to Newbies pages.
- Maintaining other guides.
- Investigating, suggesting, and executing projects to improve the site's creative environment.
- This includes suggestions for raising the profile of underappreciated or rarely done content (stuff that people don't read, and stuff that people are afraid to write).
- Suggesting articles for administrators to feature on the front page.
- Performing author outreach and running IRC Seminars.
- Creating and maintaining Collections, groupings of works based on content or thematic elements.
Community Outreach Team Members are typically delegated to specific tasks involved in operating the Wiki. Although staff members are under specific categories, they're less of "sub-teams" and more of focuses, which means that they can participate in other areas, but usually don't, and are out-of-the-loop regarding the specific on-goings of that area.
If you have any questions or concerns, please inquire in #site81 or message a member of the team.
If there are issues with this page, please contact a Community Outreach Team Member.
Internet Outreach Hub
The Internet Outreach Team (abbreviated as IO) is the staff team of the SCP Wiki concerned with handling and communicating with off-site communities and the wider SCP fandom. Additionally, the team is responsible for conveying important events to casual fans and assisting new members in learning more about the Wiki. More specifically, the IO Team's responsibilities are:
- Managing official social media channels and public relations for the off-site community.
- Establishing and cultivating links with outside spinoff communities and fanbases.
- Inviting members of spinoff communities and fanbases to join the site, and helping them acclimate.
- Helping the community accommodate these new members and the material they might bring (such as fanart, SCP readings, games, drawings, and other creative endeavors).
- Maintaining communication and good relations with international sites.
- Proposing and executing other methods of raising the profile of the SCP Foundation elsewhere on the Internet.
The Internet Outreach Team is delegated into several branches, each with its own rules and power structures. Each subsection of IO (such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Reddit) has captains who take responsibility for the performance of those teams. Admins of official translation sites are also staff members of the IO Team. The Team Captain is the final authority and has the final say in all major decisions, and is responsible for the performance of the team as a whole.
There are several social network sites which are officially run by the IO Team. The responsibility for running these sites is primarily held by the Captains and their subordinates.
The pages are primarily focused on the following types of content:
- Answering questions from the wider userbase.
- Posting links to newer articles to help promote activity.
- Bringing quality SCP works to attention.
- Highlighting featured articles.
- Disseminating major site news.
If you have any questions or concerns, please message the official email or a member of the team.
If there are issues with this page, please contact an Internet Outreach Team Member.
