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Administrators (aka Sysops) are trusted members of established wiki communities who have been granted additional permissions. These permissions include the ability to delete and undelete pages and images, rollback rights (undoing edits by a single IP/User with a single click), and the ability to block users. Administrators are functionally equal to Wiki guardians.

Administrator's edits should not carry more weight than any other editors unless it is a correction based on policy, which should be noted in the edit summary. Administrators are expected to be available to the community through email, (the Email this user link from their user page), and to be helpful to other members of the community while trying to accomplish community set goals on the wiki.

Administrators are expected to act as mediators in cases of user disputes, and are expected to act professionally within the editing community. Administrators are encouraged to read the administrators' guide.

User rights

  • Access the font manager (font_manager)
  • Access wiki analytics (analytics)
  • Add and remove arbitrary tags on individual revisions and log entries (changetags)
  • Allows access to wiki admin tools, via Special:AdminDashboard (admindashboard)
  • Allows classifying multiple templates at once (template-bulk-classification)
  • Apply tags along with one's changes (applychangetags)
  • Block a user from sending email (blockemail)
  • Block a username, hiding it from the public (hideuser)
  • Block other users from editing (block)
  • Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks (ipblock-exempt)
  • Change protection settings and edit cascade-protected pages (protect)
  • Create and (de)activate tags (managechangetags)
  • Create new user accounts (createaccount)
  • Create or modify abuse filters (abusefilter-modify)
  • Create wiki-wide announcements (announcements)
  • Delete achievements (delete_achievements)
  • Delete interactive maps (deleteinteractivemap)
  • Delete pages (delete)
  • Delete pages with large histories (bigdelete)
  • Delete tags from the database (deletechangetags)
  • Edit achievements (edit_achievements)
  • Edit blog articles (blog-articles-edit)
  • Edit interactive maps (editinteractivemap)
  • Edit interwiki data (interwiki)
  • Edit meta style local achievements (edit_meta_achievements)
  • Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users" (editsemiprotected)
  • Edit pages protected as "Allow only administrators" (editprotected)
  • Edit restricted form fields (editrestrictedfields)
  • Edit sitewide CSS (editsitecss)
  • Edit sitewide JSON (editsitejson)
  • Edit sitewide JavaScript (editsitejs)
  • Edit the content model of a page (editcontentmodel)
  • Edit the user interface (editinterface)
  • Exempt from site-wide action restrictions (protectsite-exempt)
  • Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
  • Import pages from a file upload (importupload)
  • Import pages from other wikis (import)
  • Manage marker reports (moderateinteractivemap)
  • Manually award or unaward achievements (award_achievements)
  • Mark others' edits as patrolled (patrol)
  • Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits (markbotedits)
  • Mass delete pages (nuke)
  • Merge the history of pages (mergehistory)
  • Moderate comments on user profiles (profile-comments-moderate)
  • Move blog articles (blog-articles-move)
  • Move category pages (move-categorypages)
  • Move files (movefile)
  • Move interactive maps (moveinteractivemap)
  • Move pages (move)
  • Move pages with their subpages (move-subpages)
  • Move root user pages (move-rootuserpages)
  • Not be affected by IP-based rate limits (autoconfirmed)
  • 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 disallowed titles or usernames list (tboverride)
  • Overwrite existing files (reupload)
  • Overwrite existing files uploaded by oneself (reupload-own)
  • Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA (skipcaptcha)
  • Perform administrator tasks on achievements (achievement_admin)
  • Protect blog articles (blog-articles-protect)
  • Purge comments on user profiles (profile-purgecomments)
  • Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page (rollback)
  • Restore deleted achievements (restore_achievements)
  • Revert all changes by a given abuse filter (abusefilter-revert)
  • Search deleted pages (browsearchive)
  • Unblock oneself (unblockself)
  • Undelete a page (undelete)
  • Upload files (upload)
  • Use higher limits in API queries (apihighlimits)
  • User is eligible to earn achievement points (Overrides exempt) (achievements-explicit)
  • View "Generate pages" tab and page (generatepages)
  • View a list of unwatched pages (unwatchedpages)
  • View abuse filters (abusefilter-view)
  • View abuse filters marked as private (abusefilter-view-private)
  • View deleted history entries, without their associated text (deletedhistory)
  • View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions (deletedtext)
  • View detailed abuse log entries (abusefilter-log-detail)
  • View disallowed title list log (titleblacklistlog)
  • View log entries of abuse filters marked as private (abusefilter-log-private)
  • View the abuse log (abusefilter-log)
  • View user wiki points history (wiki_points_admin)
  • ⧼right-abusefilter-log-view⧽ (abusefilter-log-view)
  • ⧼right-curatedcontent⧽ (curatedcontent)
  • ⧼right-deleteinterfacetrusted⧽ (deleteinterfacetrusted)
  • ⧼right-dumpsondemand⧽ (dumpsondemand)
  • ⧼right-dumpsondemandrequest⧽ (dumpsondemandrequest)
  • ⧼right-globalblock⧽ (globalblock)
  • ⧼right-replacetext⧽ (replacetext)
  • ⧼right-search_log⧽ (search_log)
  • ⧼right-themedesigner⧽ (themedesigner)
  • ⧼right-walledit⧽ (walledit)
  • ⧼right-wallremove⧽ (wallremove)
  • ⧼right-wikifeatures⧽ (wikifeatures)

From non-default extensions

Cargo

  • Delete a Cargo table (deletecargodata)
  • Recreate data contained in Cargo tables (recreatecargodata)

DPL3

  • Mass deletion of pages using DynamicPageList3 (dpl_param_delete_rules)
  • Mass update of pages using DynamicPageList3 (dpl_param_update_rules)

PDFEmbed

  • Embed PDFs into pages (embed_pdf)

Streamer

  • ⧼right-edit_streamer_info⧽ (edit_streamer_info)

Translate

  • Change workflow state of message groups (translate-groupreview)
  • Edit using the translate interface (translate)
  • Import offline translations (translate-import)
  • Manage message groups (translate-manage)
  • Mark versions of pages for translation (pagetranslation)
  • Review translations (translate-messagereview)

WebChat

  • ⧼right-webchat⧽ (webchat)

Widgets

  • Create and edit widgets in the Widget namespace (editwidgets)

Groups

See also

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