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 editor's 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 userpage), 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 in a professional manner within the editing community. Administrators are encouraged to read the Administrators Guide.
User rights
- Access administration tasks (Semantic MediaWiki) (smw-admin)
- Allowed to use web chat (webchat)
- 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 levels and edit cascade-protected pages (protect)
- Create and (de)activate tags (managechangetags)
- Create and edit widgets in the Widget namespace (editwidgets)
- Create new user accounts (createaccount)
- Delete tags from the database (deletechangetags)
- Delete pages (delete)
- Delete pages with large histories (bigdelete)
- Edit interwiki data (interwiki)
- Edit other users' CSS files (editusercss)
- Edit other users' JavaScript files (edituserjs)
- Edit pages protected as "Allow only administrators" (editprotected)
- Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users" (editsemiprotected)
- Edit restricted form fields (editrestrictedfields)
- Edit the user interface (editinterface)
- Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
- Import pages from a file upload (importupload)
- Import pages from other wikis (import)
- Mark others' edits as patrolled (patrol)
- Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits (markbotedits)
- Mass delete pages (nuke)
- Merge the history of pages (mergehistory)
- Modify abuse filters (abusefilter-modify)
- Modify abuse filters with restricted actions (abusefilter-modify-restricted)
- Move category pages (move-categorypages)
- Move files (movefile)
- 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 spoofing checks ((override-antispoof)
- Override the title or username blacklist (tboverride)
- Overwrite existing files (reupload)
- Overwrite existing files uploaded by oneself (reupload-own)
- Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page (rollback)
- 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)
- View a list of unwatched pages (unwatchedpages)
- View abuse filters (abusefilter-view)
- 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 private data in the abuse log (abusefilter-private)
- View the abuse log (abusefilter-log)
- View the spam blacklist log (spamblacklistlog)
- View title blacklist log (titleblacklistlog)
- achievement_admin (achievement_admin)
- award_achievements (award_achievements)
- delete_achievements (delete_achievements)
- deletecargodata (deletecargodata)
- dpl_param_delete_rules (dpl_param_delete_rules)
- dpl_param_update_rules (dpl_param_update_rules)
- edit_achievements (edit_achievements)
- edit_meta_achievements (edit_meta_achievements)
- edit_streamer_info (edit_streamer_info)
- embed_pdf (embed_pdf)
- font_manager (font_manager)
- globalblock (globalblock)
- pagetranslation (pagetranslation)
- profile-moderate (profile-moderate)
- profile-purgecomments (profile-purgecomments)
- recreatecargodata (recreatecargodata)
- restore_achievements (restore_achievements)
- search_log (search_log)
- skipcaptcha (skipcaptcha)
- spritesheet_rollback (spritesheet_rollback)
- translate (translate)
- translate-groupreview (translate-groupreview)
- translate-import (translate-import)
- translate-manage (translate-manage)
- translate-messagereview (translate-messagereview)
- wiki_points_admin (wiki_points_admin)