Wikipedia:Administrators
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Administrators, also called admins and also called sysops (system operators), are editors that have access to special features that help keep Wikipedia running smoothly. They have access to these features because they are meant to be trusted by the community, but this does not make them better or more important than anybody else. The opinion of an administrator, for example, should not be more valid than the opinion of a person who chooses to change Wikipedia with an IP address because they have administrator rights.
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Things they can do
- Delete pages
- Requests should be made at Wikipedia:Requests for deletion unless a page is a quick deletion candidate.
- Protect and unprotect pages and edit protected pages, including those in the MediaWiki namespace.
- Requests can be made at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard. Please remember that pages are usually protected when there is continuous vandalism or edit war in process, and not to prevent vandalism.
- Block disruptive users
- Requests should be made at Wikipedia:Vandalism in progress but only if the user has been disruptive. Requests made in bad faith may result in you yourself being blocked.
- Rollback changes
Administrators can rollback all changes by a user and it is automatically marked as minor and gives the following edit summary:
- Reverted changes by User A (talk) to last version by User B
To use bot rollback, you type in the url http://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=Example&bot=1 replacing Example with the user name, then you can rollback edits and hide them from the recent changes along with the rolled back edit, but this should only be used for large amounts of vandalism, like a with vandalbot.
Bureaucrat
A bureaucrat is a slightly higher administrative level that can perform a few additional functions. Bureaucrats can give administrator or bureaucrat status to other users following a successful request on WP:RFA. Bureaucrats can also help users who want to change user names. They can also "flag" bots, which means to hide their contributions from the new changes and put them in the bot group. Requests for name changes should be made directly to the talk page of one of the listed bureaucrats.
CheckUser
Certain administrators have checkuser access. They can see the IP addresses of named editors. They can also see which users edit from certain IP adresses, as well as some information on the Browser used for editing. There are many rules as to who can become a CheckUser, and how CheckUsers have to behave. These rules are listed on the CheckUser policy page.
List of administrators
- An automated list of accounts with administrator rights is available at Special:Listadmins.
Requesting for administrator, bureaucrat or checkuser rights
Users who want to request for administrator, bureaucrat or checkuser rights can request at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship. Note that only admins can become bureaucrats.
See also
- Wikipedia:Criteria for Administratorship
- Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard, where to talk with administrators
- Administrator logs
- Bureaucrat logs
- Wikipedia:Rules
- meta:Administrators of various Wikipedias
