Wikipedia:Administrators and bureaucrats
Administrators, also called sysops - short for system operators, are editors that have access to technical 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 edit Wikipedia with an IP address because they have administrator rights.
Things administrators can do:
- Delete pages
- Deletion policy
- Requests should be made at Requests for deletion unless a page is a quick deletion candidate.
- Deletion policy
- Protect and unprotect pages and edit protected pages, including those in the MediaWiki namespace.
- Block disruptive users
- Blocks and bans
- Requests should be made at Vandalism in progress but only if the user has been disruptive. Requests made in bad faith may result in you yourself being blocked.
- Blocks and bans
If you would like to become an administrator, please create a nomination request in this section, but please look at the archives first so you can see why other people's requests have failed or succeeded. Jimbo Wales, the founder of the Wikimedia Foundation, said "this should be no big deal".
Bureaucrat
- An automated list of accounts with bureaucrat status is available at Special:ListUsers/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 this page. 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.
List of administrators
- An automated list of accounts with admin status is available at Special:Listadmins.
- 1997kB talk contribs
- 32X talk contribs
- AKlapper (WMF) talk contribs
- Abuse filter talk contribs
- Addshore talk contribs
- AlvaroMolina talk contribs
- Ankry talk contribs
- Atcovi talk contribs
- BRPever talk contribs
- Base talk contribs
- Brackenheim talk contribs
- CMing (WMF) talk contribs
- Codc talk contribs
- Count Count talk contribs
- Cromium talk contribs
- DCB talk contribs
- DarkVador79-UA talk contribs
- Der-Wir-Ing talk contribs
- DerHexer talk contribs
- Didym talk contribs
- Doc Taxon talk contribs
- Dragoniez talk contribs
- EPIC talk contribs
- Etonkovidova (WMF) talk contribs
- Freddy2001 talk contribs
- Gereon K. talk contribs
- Ghilt talk contribs
- H-stt talk contribs
- HNowlan (WMF) talk contribs
- Itti talk contribs
- Jasper Deng talk contribs
- Jdforrester (WMF) talk contribs
- Jeff G. talk contribs
- Jianhui67 talk contribs
- Johannnes89 talk contribs
- Justiyaya talk contribs
- KPFC talk contribs
- KStoller-WMF talk contribs
- Koavf talk contribs
- Krinkle talk contribs
- Ladsgroup talk contribs
- Legoktm talk contribs
- Lucas Werkmeister talk contribs
- Lucas Werkmeister (WMDE) talk contribs
- Luke081515 talk contribs
- MGChecker talk contribs
- MGrosse-WMF talk contribs
- Marcus Cyron talk contribs
- MarkAHershberger talk contribs
- Martin Rulsch (WMDE) talk contribs
- Martin Urbanec talk contribs
- MdsShakil talk contribs
- Murbaut talk contribs
- NahidSultan talk contribs
- New York-air talk contribs
- OlEnglish talk contribs
- Praxidicae talk contribs
- Quiddity talk contribs
- Reedy talk contribs
- SBassett (WMF) talk contribs
- SDKmac talk contribs
- SGimeno (WMF) talk contribs
- SPQRobin talk contribs
- Samuele2002 talk contribs
- Sandro Halank (WMDE) talk contribs
- Schniggendiller talk contribs
- ShifaYT talk contribs
- Siebrand talk contribs
- Steinsplitter talk contribs
- Stïnger talk contribs
- Sumanah talk contribs
- Taavi talk contribs
- Tacsipacsi talk contribs
- Takipoint123 talk contribs
- TenWhile6 talk contribs
- TheDJ talk contribs
- Thehelpfulone talk contribs
- TheresNoTime talk contribs
- This, that and the other talk contribs
- Vogone talk contribs
- Wiegels talk contribs
- WikiBayer talk contribs
- Wnme talk contribs
- XXN talk contribs
- Xaosflux talk contribs
- XenonX3 talk contribs
- Yahya talk contribs
- Zenith4237 talk contribs
- علاء talk contribs
- 기나ㅏㄴ talk contribs
- 😂 talk contribs
Nominations and requests to be an administrator/bureaucrat
Current issues and requests
Users can contact administrators on this page to ask them to protect pages. Requests for deletion should be made on Requests for deletion and requests for blocking on vandalism in progress.
All administrators should watch this section for issues that they should be aware of and for news about policy changes that may affect them.
See also
- Administrator logs
- Bureaucrat logs
- User rights log
- User rename log (former bureaucrat log; now global renamer log)
- Wikipedia:Rules
- meta:Administrators of various Wikipedias