Editing Geometry Dash Expanded Wiki:Staff (section)

==Staff engagement==
*''Contribution is currency.''
Staffing a wiki is unpaid, therefore it should be acknowledged that a staff member's life need not revolve around a pastime of voluntary contribution to an Internet website. With that being said, those who do commit time to thoroughly contributing to the wiki - particularly to a degree significant enough from having undertaken a variety of major projects that it prominently guides the wiki's development trajectory - should be recognised for their efforts. It is such contributors who are more likely to ultimately find themselves promoted to a staff position. Resultingly, their demonstrated investment and sustained engagement affords them a say in various wiki matters that their opinion should then have greater influence compared to those who have not demonstrated comparable investment or sustained engagement. This is foundational to the wiki maintaining a culture of contribution, which naturally underpins the broader wiki project experiencing growth and being successful as a live active resource for viewers. A wiki culture based on anything else fundamentally compromises this objective, and if this were to be accepted, over time the wiki would instead experience stagnation (or corruption where wilful neglect is severe), and the quality controls enforced by those who care about the integrity of the wiki will wane. It is therefore a key responsibility of staff who find themselves deeply engaged in their wiki participation to help foster and promote the integral culture of contribution.

Inevitably one will experience decreased interest in contributing as time advances and personal circumstances change. Noting as mentioned that participation is voluntary, staff are not obligated to remain consistent contributors, nor are they to be subject to any kind of ultimatum that they must undertake any series of actions to keep their staff rights. Once promoted, an administrator should retain the user group rights no shorter than until they enter into ''Extended Inactivity'' (EI), which is regarded as exceeding 60 days since making their last edit (in any namespace, including User). Upon reaching EI, a permissions administrator may relinquish them of their user group rights. However, in such instances former staff members may have their rights restored upon request. It is less about 'how long a staff member has not edited', but pertinent the question of whether their investment has permanently waned and continued engagement is unlikely to experience turnaround. Therefore, their influence should be lesser, and their opinions should carry less weight than they might have in past when they were more deeply engaged. 

Moreover, elected staff do not become immune to the consequences of unacceptable conduct as specified by site policy, and may be demoted with near-unanimous consensus from the other active staff contingent on it being clearly demonstrated with evidence that there has been wilful misconduct in bad-faith by the subject staff member. Disagreements or conflict between staff members does not rise to this threshold where evidence of site policy-defined misconduct is lacking, and instead mediation should take place under the direction of senior longer-serving staff towards dispute resolution, applying the key principle of assuming good-faith. Those who have meaningfully contributed to the wiki by the combination of number of constructive edits, duration of service, technical editing proficiency and wiki management experience assume seniority, and by their highly demonstrated investment and long-sustained engagement, maintain elevated weight in major decision-making.