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Proposed guidelines for channel, largely borrowed from IRC/wikipedia-en-admins/Guidelines.

#wikidata-admins is a closed IRC channel allowing for real-time communications among administrators on Wikidata and selected others. In addition to Wikidata administrators, access to the channel has been provided to some former admins, global sysops, and stewards. The channel is managed by its operator team. Wikimedia IRC channels as a whole are managed by the Group Contacts.

A list of all users is not available for the channel. See below for instructions on how to join. All participants in the channel are expected to abide by the guidelines.

Purpose

As envisioned by the founders and channel operators, the main purpose of the channel is to provide a forum for interaction among administrators. The channel provides a place for admins to obtain input from their colleagues on issues that arise from time to time, as well as to seek out an administrator with particular skills or interests to address a situation, or to locate a functionary such as a checkuser, bureaucrat, or steward where called for.

In addition to these primary purposes, the channel also facilitates social interaction among the administrator corps and other invitees apart from their day-to-day on-wiki dealings. It's a work channel with a lot of background chatting.

Important: The channel is useful for administrators to double-check themselves or obtain second opinions prior to acting, but in-channel discussion is never a substitute for an administrator's taking responsibility for his or her own administrator actions, nor for on-wiki discussions (on WD:AN or another appropriate forum) of controversial issues or decisions. Basing an admin decision on IRC discussion is a bad idea. You bear responsibility for your own actions.

Policy

All users who are able to receive (or currently have) admin rights on Wikidata are entitled to access to the #wikidata-admins channel. (For our purposes, "admin rights" is defined as the ability to delete and protect pages.)

This includes all users listed at d:Special:ListUsers/sysop, stewards (who have admin rights through the global steward group), and global sysops.

In the case of de-adminship for any reason, and the user is not a steward or global sysop, the user shall lose access to -admin.