Wiktionary:Administrators

Administrators, also called admins or sysops (system operators), are editors that have access to special features that help keep Wiktionary running smoothly. They have access to these features because they are trusted by the community, but this does not make them better or more important than anybody else.

Things they can do

This is the symbol of administrators. It shows the site's logo with a mop, because administrators can be thought of as Wiktionary's janitors.

• Delete pages
  • Requests should be made at Wiktionary:Requests for deletion unless a page can be quick deleted.
• Protect and unprotect pages and edit protected pages, including those in the MediaWiki namespace.
  • Requests can be made at Wiktionary:Administrators' noticeboard. Please remember that pages are usually protected when there is vandalism or an edit war is in process, and not to prevent vandalism.
• Block disruptive users
  • Requests should be made at Wiktionary:Administrators' noticeboard, but only if the user has been disruptive. Requests made in bad faith may result in you yourself being blocked.
• Rollback changes
  • Administrators can rollback all changes by a user and it is automatically marked as minor and gives the following edit summary:

Reverted changes by User A (talk) to last version by User B

Bureaucrats

A bureaucrat is a slightly higher administrative level than sysop and can perform a few additional functions. Bureaucrats can give and remove sysop permission and grant bureaucrat status to other users after a successful request. Bureaucrats can also help users who want to change their user names. They can also "flag" bots, which hides a user's contributions from the new changes and puts them in the bot group. Requests for name changes should be made on the talk page of one of the listed bureaucrats.

Requesting adminship

Please see the Request for Permissions page to nominate yourself or another user for administrator or bureaucrat status.

List of administrators

You can look at an automatic list at Special:Listusers/sysop

Active

• Barras (bureaucrat, steward) (talk • changes • e-mail •blocks •protects • deletes • moves)
• Brett (bureaucrat) (talk • changes • e-mail •blocks •protects • deletes • moves)
• Hydriz (talk • changes • e-mail •blocks •protects • deletes • moves)
• Pmlineditor (global sysop) (talk • changes • e-mail •blocks •protects • deletes • moves)
• Tempodivalse (bureaucrat) (talk • changes • e-mail •blocks •protects • deletes • moves)

Semi-active

• Arbitrarily0 (talk • changes • e-mail •blocks •protects • deletes • moves)
• Tygrrr (talk • changes • e-mail •blocks •protects • deletes • moves)

Inactive

• Maximillion Pegasus (global sysop) (talk • changes • e-mail •blocks •protects • deletes • moves)

Non-regular administrators

This wiki allows Global sysops to perform uncontroversial admin actions and hence all global sysops have the admin rights here.

• Current global sysops can be found at Special:GlobalUsers/Global_sysops.

Former

• Coppertwig (talk • changes • e-mail •blocks •protects • deletes • moves)
• Cromwellt (talk • changes • e-mail •blocks •protects • deletes • moves)
• Flcelloguy (talk • changes • e-mail •blocks •protects • deletes • moves)
• Fr33kman (talk • changes • e-mail •blocks •protects • deletes • moves) (current steward)
• Gmcfoley (talk • changes • e-mail •blocks •protects • deletes • moves)
• H2g2bob (former bureaucrat) (talk • changes • e-mail •blocks •protects • deletes • moves)
• Razorflame (former bureaucrat) (talk • changes • e-mail •blocks •protects • deletes • moves)
• TBC (talk • changes • e-mail •blocks •protects • deletes • moves)
• Wenli (talk • changes • e-mail •blocks •protects • deletes • moves)