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Administrators, or sysops (system operators), are users who have been appointed with extra editing powers for maintenance-based tasks. Administrators act as janitors, as they help keep the wiki a clean and better place by deleting/restoring pages, protecting pages, blocking users/IP editors, editing MediaWiki pages, viewing deleted archives and closing community discussions.
Administrators do not own the wiki. They do not run the wiki. They guide the wiki, and are trusted with the tools they have by the entire community.
Administrators still have to abide by wiki policies, and their input in discussions do not carry any extra weight on the account of being one. If an administrator abuses or misuses his/her rights, they can be removed after a community discussion or immediately by a bureaucrat, depending on the situation.
Administrator abilities
Full List of Rights (Advanced)
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- Block a user from sending e-mail (blockemail)
- Block other users from editing (block)
- Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks (ipblock-exempt)
- Bypass automatic blocks of proxies (proxyunbannable)
- Can kick/ban users from Chat (chatmoderator)
- Change protection levels and edit protected pages (protect)
- Delete comments on blog articles (blog-comments-delete)
- Delete items from a Top 10 list page (toplists-delete-item)
- Delete pages (delete)
- Delete pages with large histories (bigdelete)
- Edit blog articles (blog-articles-edit)
- Edit items in a Top 10 list page (toplists-edit-item)
- Edit restricted form fields (editrestrictedfields)
- Edit semi-protected pages (autoconfirmed)
- Edit the user interface (editinterface)
- Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
- Import pages from a file upload (importupload)
- Mark others' edits as patrolled (patrol)
- Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits (markbotedits)
- Move blog articles (blog-articles-move)
- Move files (movefile)
- Move pages (move)
- Move pages with their subpages (move-subpages)
- Move root user pages (move-rootuserpages)
- Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)
- Not create redirects from source pages when moving pages (suppressredirect)
- Override files on the shared media repository locally (reupload-shared)
- Override the title blacklist (tboverride)
- Overwrite existing files (reupload)
- Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA (skipcaptcha)
- Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page (rollback)
- Search deleted pages (browsearchive)
- Toggle comments on blog articles (blog-comments-toggle)
- Unblock themselves (unblockself)
- Undelete a page (undelete)
- Upload files (upload)
- Upload files from a URL (upload_by_url)
- Use higher limits in API queries (apihighlimits)
- View a list of unwatched pages (unwatchedpages)
- View deleted history entries, without their associated text (deletedhistory)
- View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions (deletedtext)
- View parser performance statistics (parserspeed)
- achievements-explicit (achievements-explicit)
- admindashboard (admindashboard)
- allowedtoblank (allowedtoblank)
- batchmove (batchmove)
- becp_user (becp_user)
- blog-articles-protect (blog-articles-protect)
- canremovemap (canremovemap)
- chatadmin (chatadmin)
- commentdelete (commentdelete)
- commentedit (commentedit)
- commentmove (commentmove)
- curatedcontent (curatedcontent)
- deleteinterfacetrusted (deleteinterfacetrusted)
- deleteprofilev3 (deleteprofilev3)
- dumpsondemand (dumpsondemand)
- editlyricfind (editlyricfind)
- editwallarchivedpages (editwallarchivedpages)
- finishcreate (finishcreate)
- flags-administration (flags-administration)
- forum (forum)
- forumadmin (forumadmin)
- forumoldedit (forumoldedit)
- gameguidescontent (gameguidescontent)
- gameguidespreview (gameguidespreview)
- linkstoredirects (linkstoredirects)
- mobilesearches (mobilesearches)
- moderatesotd (moderatesotd)
- njordeditmode (njordeditmode)
- notifyeveryone (notifyeveryone)
- pageviews (pageviews)
- places-enable-category-geolocation (places-enable-category-geolocation)
- renameprofilev3 (renameprofilev3)
- soapfailures (soapfailures)
- specialvideosdelete (specialvideosdelete)
- template-bulk-classification (template-bulk-classification)
- themedesigner (themedesigner)
- videopagetool (videopagetool)
- walladmindelete (walladmindelete)
- wallarchive (wallarchive)
- walledit (walledit)
- wallmessagemove (wallmessagemove)
- wallremove (wallremove)
- wikianavlocal (wikianavlocal)
- wikiawidget (wikiawidget)
- wikifeatures (wikifeatures)
- wteditimagelist (wteditimagelist)
- Add groups: Chat Moderators and Discussion Moderators
- Remove groups: Chat Moderators and Discussion Moderators
- Remove group from own account: Administrators
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Our Administrators
- Fully Active - These users log on and edit every day, for most of the day.
- Partially Active - These users log on most of the time. These users are good to contact, but not for emergencies.
- Inactive - These users are inactive. Do not contact these users.
- Away - These users are currently away (e.g. on vacation).
All administrators have their usernames shown in dark green around the wiki, unless they are a bureaucrat.
Previous administrators
For a list of previous administrators, and their promotion and demotion dates, please see our list of administrators.
Becoming an administrator
To become an administrator, please create a Request for Administrator.
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