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From Meta a Wikimedia project coordination wiki Redirected from Other languages Bahasa Indonesia Bahasa Melayu Basa Bali Cebuano Cymraeg Deutsch English Esperanto Hausa Letzebuergesch Nederlands Sunda Tiếng Việt Turkce asturianu azerbaycanca dansk espanol euskara francais hrvatski italiano lietuviu magyar norsk bokmal polski portugues portugues do Brasil romană shqip sicilianu slovencina suomi svenska cestina slunski Ellhnika belaruskaya tarashkevica blgarski makedonski russkij tatarcha tatarca toҷikӣ ukrayinska հայերեն עברית ئۇيغۇرچە العربية سنڌي فارسی پښتو کٲش ر अ ग क न प ल भ जप र मर ठ ह न द ব ল ગ જર ત മലയ ള ithy ဖ လ က မ န မ ဘ သ 中文 日本語 粵語 ꯃ ꯇ ꯂ ꯟ 한국어 The Delete form The Protect form The Block form image when blocking user accounts Administrators also known as sysops system operators or shortly 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 FoundationvteUser groupsLocal groupsOn MetaWithout global effectsAccount 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 UploadersWith global effectsAdministrators Central notice administrators Global renamers Interface administrators MassMessage senders OAuth administrators Push subscription managers Translation administrators WMF Office IT WMF Trust and SafetyOn some wikisUploaders 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 clerksOn 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 Functioneers Maintainers Wikifunctions staffOn all wikisBlocked 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 botsHistorical groupsExtended uploaders Course coordinators Instructors Online volunteers and Campus volunteers Movers ZeroRatedMobileAccess administrators WMF ops monitoring GWToolset users Abuse filter editorsGlobal groupsLocked 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 Two factor authentication testers New wikis importers Ombuds Recursive export Staff Stewards System administrators U4C members VRT permissions agents wmf email block override WMF researchersLinks in italic are separate account statuses that are not assigned through user groups See also Wikimedia user groups Categories User groupsAdministrators