Cometwiki:Administrators
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Administrators, commonly abbreviated as admins and also called sysops, are Wikipedia editors that have access to technical features that help with maintenance. Wikipedia practice is to grant administrator status to anyone who has been an active and regular Wikipedia contributor for at least a few months, is familiar with and respects Wikipedia policy, and who has gained the trust of the community. They can protect and delete pages, block other editors, and undo these actions as well. By default, these privileges are granted indefinitely and are only removed on request or under circumstances involving high level intervention. Administrators are editors who undertake additional responsibilities on a voluntary basis. They are not paid employees.
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[edit] List of Administrators
- Rob Kohr
- Admin
- Comet
- ForestH2
- Pinky
Other access types
In addition to administrators, there are other types of identified users. See also Wikipedia:User access levels.
[edit] IP addresses
Visitors who have not "signed in" can still do most things, including the most important: editing articles and helping with Wikipedia maintenance tasks.
[edit] Signed-in users
Signed-up users can do everything IP addresses can do. They can also upload files, start new articles and, once they reach the "autoconfirm" threshold, they can move/rename pages and edit semi-protected pages. See Special:Userlogin to sign up.
[edit] Bots
The edits of users with bot status turned on do not show up in recent changes, usually only used for mass edits by bots.
[edit] Bureaucrats
Users with "bureaucrat" status can turn other users into sysops (but not remove sysop status), change usernames, and flag and unflag bots accounts. Bureaucrats are created by other bureaucrats on projects where these exist, or by stewards on those who do not yet have one.
[edit] Oversights
Users with the "Oversight" permission can hide revisions of pages from all users. These revisions can temporarily be accessed and reviewed by users with the oversight permission. A log of oversight actions is visible to all Oversights.
[edit] Checkusers
Users with the "Checkuser" permission can retrieve the IP addresses used by a username and can also retrieve all edits by users using a certain IP or IP range. A log of Checkuser actions is visible to all Checkusers.
[edit] Stewards
Users with "Steward" status can change the access of any user on any Wikimedia project. This includes granting and revoking sysop access and marking users as bots. Their actions are recorded at Special:Log/rights on meta. Requests for their assistance can be made at m:Requests for permissions. Normally, they will not perform actions that can be carried out by local users.
[edit] Developers
The highest degree of technical access (actually a group of levels, the difference between all but the lowest of which is not really visible to users) is "developer", for those who can make direct changes to the MediaWiki software and the Wikimedia wiki farm and databases. These people, by and large, do not carry out administrative functions.
