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The Delete form.
The Protect form.
The Block form (image when blocking
user accounts
).
Administrators
(also known as
sysops
system operators
, or
admins
) are users with the technical ability to:
delete and undelete pages, and view deleted revisions of pages;
block and unblock users, individual IP addresses, and ranges of IP addresses;
protect and unprotect pages, and edit
protected pages
(if available) set the stable viewing level of a page (see
here
for an example)
edit most pages in the
MediaWiki namespace
import pages from other Wikimedia projects;
perform other functions related to the technical maintenance;
add and remove users from some usergroups, such as
rollback
IP block exempt
or
flooder
Administrators can perform these actions only on a wiki on which they have been given adminship.
The role and expectations of administrators, as well as the policies surrounding their behavior, vary widely among the different projects. While administrators have more technical abilities than ordinary users, this should not be confused with authority, which is earned separately and given by the community. Some wiki sites may not even have adopted written policies for administrators or candidates for adminship. This is usually due to limited number of users and activities.
Some projects use different terms for administrators. For example, the English Wikiversity uses "custodian", while the Spanish Wikipedia uses what translates into "librarian".
All "administrative" actions are logged and reversible by any other administrator. The same principle applies to all the special permissions on MediaWiki, although some are not publicly logged: see for instance
checkusers
, who need to be at least a couple on each
Wikimedia project
to check each other. This makes their activity closely scrutinized by the community at large. In particular, it is comparable to the
ius intercessionis
or the
Roman consuls
' veto: an intrinsic system for consensual action, reciprocal control, and prevention of abuse. Its degeneration, when the system fails to actually prevent abuse and such powers have to be in fact exercised (multiple times) to reverse a previous action, is the so-called
wheel war
Administrators are subject to the global
admin activity review
policy, which stipulates that their rights may be removed if inactive for more than two years.
See also
Administrators of Wikimedia projects
Meta:Administrators
– administrators on Meta
Manual:Administrators
on the MediaWiki.org – for information about the designation "Administrator" within the MediaWiki software, for users of MediaWiki projects which are not part of the Wikimedia Foundation
User groups
Local
groups
On Meta
Without global effects
Account creators
Autopatrollers
Bots
Bureaucrats
CheckUsers
Community Wishlist managers
Confirmed users
Event organizers
Flood flag
Importers
IP block exemptions
Users blocked from the IP Information tool
Oversighters
Patrollers
Transwiki importers
Temporary account IP viewers
Uploaders
With global effects
Administrators
Central notice administrators
Global renamers
Interface administrators
MassMessage senders
OAuth administrators
Push subscription managers
Translation administrators
WMF Office IT
WMF Trust and Safety
On some wikis
Uploaders
Autopatrollers
Patrollers
Reviewers
Rollbackers
Autochecked users
Extended confirmed users
File movers
Interface editors
Abuse filter editors
Template editors
Eliminators
Translation administrators
MassMessage senders
Arbitration committee members
Extended movers
Bots with administrator rights
Flooders
Curators
Election clerks
On one wiki
(except Meta)
Noratelimit accounts
Engineers
Upload Wizard campaign editors
Image reviewers
Test wiki administrators
Property creators
Wikidata staff
Researchers
IP block exemption grantors
Movers
Functioneers
Maintainers
Wikifunctions staff
On all wikis
Blocked users
Unregistered users
Newly-registered users
Registered users
Confirmed users
Autoconfirmed users
Account creators
Bots
Administrators
Interface administrators
Bureaucrats
Oversighters
CheckUsers
IP block exemptions
Importers
Transwiki importers
Temporary account IP viewers
Users blocked from the IP Information tool
Structured Discussions bots
Historical groups
Extended uploaders
Course coordinators, Instructors, Online volunteers and Campus volunteers
ZeroRatedMobileAccess administrators
WMF ops monitoring
GWToolset users
Global
groups
Locked accounts
Unified accounts
Abuse filter helpers
Abuse filter maintainers
API high limit requestors
CAPTCHA exemptions
Founder
Global bots
Global deleters
Global Flow creators
Global interface editors
Global IP block exemptions
Global rollbackers
Global sysops
Global temporary account IP viewers
New wikis importers
Ombuds
Recursive export
Staff
Stewards
System administrators
U4C members
VRT permissions agents
wmf-email-block-override
WMF researchers
Links in
italic
are separate account statuses that are not assigned through user groups.
See also:
Wikimedia user groups
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