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Administrators are Wikipedians who have "sysop rights". Current Wikipedia policy is to grant this access liberally to anyone who has been an active Wikipedia contributor for a while and is generally a known and trusted member of the community. "This should be no big deal," as Jimbo has said.

Sysops are not imbued with any special authority, and are equal to everybody else in terms of editorial responsibility. Some Wikipedians consider the terms "Sysop" and "Administrator" to be misnomers, as they just indicate Wikipedia users who have had performance- and security-based restrictions on a couple of features lifted because they seemed like trustworthy folks and asked nicely.

What's the deal?

The Wiki software has few restricted features, but they are quite important. Sysops can:

Protected pages

  • Protect and unprotect pages. Pages are only protected in certain rare circumstances - for information and guidelines, see Wikipedia:Protection policy.

Deletion and undeletion

  • Delete pages and their history. For information and guidelines, see both Wikipedia:deletion policy and (most definitely) Wikipedia:Deletion guidelines for administrators. To suggest a page to delete (after reading the policy and guidelines pages!), see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion. Sometimes deletion is a technical matter, in which a redirection page has to be removed to make way for renaming an article, or a page whose history has been broken up has to be deleted and the pieces recombined. Other times it's a matter of cleaning up simple junk edits on pages with no actual content, or removing material that has been pasted in from another site and infringes copyright.
  • Permanently delete images. This is a non-reversible change: once deleted, always deleted. For information and guidelines, see Wikipedia:Image use policy. To suggest an image to delete (after reading the policy), see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion. To challenge a decision to delete an image, make sure that you still have a copy of the image (else there is no way to restore it), then see Wikipedia:Votes for undeletion. Note that there is no particular reason that image deletion should not be reversible; this is simply the way the software works at present.

Reverting

  • Revert pages quickly. When looking at a user's contributions, a link that looks like this [rollback] appears next to edits that are at the top of the edit history. Clicking on the link reverts to the last edit not authored by that user, with edit summary (Reverted to last edit by X). This expedites the reversion of edits by anonymous vandals. Note, however, that all users, including those who are not logged in, can revert pages.

Hiding vandalism from recent changes

  • Sysops can hide vandalism from Recent changes. To do this, add &bot=1 to the end of the url used to access a user's contributions. For example, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Contributions&target=Michael&bot=1. When the rollback links on the contributions list are clicked, the revert, and the original edit that you are reverting will both be hidden from the default Recentchanges display (by using the marker originally added to keep massive bot edits from flooding recentchanges, hence the "bot").This means that they will be hidden from recent changes unless you click the "bots" link to set hidebots=0. The edits are not hidden from contribs, history, watchlist, etc. The edits remain in the database and are not removed, but they no longer flood Recentchanges. The aim of this feature is to reduce the annoyance factor of a flood vandal with relatively little effort. This should not be used for reverting a change you just don't like, but is meant only for simple vandalism, particularly massive flood vandalism.

Block and unblock

  • Sysops can block and unblock IP addresses. This is meant to be used solely to deal with persistent vandalism. IP banning is not meant to be used against unpopular opinions, non-persistent vandalism, etc.
  • If your IP has been blocked, then you can see which administrator blocked you when you try to edit, to challenge their decision, contact them individually (if they have provided contact details on their user page), or use wikiEN-L mailing list. In any case, IP blocks expire after 24 hours. Because dynamic IPs and proxies are so common with major internet providers, if you've been banned for things someone else did, please don't take it personally. To challenge a decision to block someone else's IP address, or yours after it has expired, use this page's talk page.
  • As of September 2003, it is now possible for sysops to block usernames. It is important to note that sysops are not authorised to decide whether a particular case of vandalism warrants banning by username. The ability to ban by username has been made available for the purposes of enforcing a ban already approved by Jimbo. It may be used to block obvious reincarnations of hard-banned users.

Database queries

  • Until July 29 2003, sysops were able to perform direct read-only queries on the English Wikipedia's database.The privilege was removed by Eloquence due to excessive load on the database and sysops were asked to request a developer run a query for them instead at Wikipedia:SQL query requests or to download the backup dump and a MySQL database and perform queries locally. At some point, sysop queries were re-enabled, perhaps accidentally, and since this there has been some dispute about whether or not sysops are allowed to run them. If you do choose to do so, Tim Starling recommends that you only do this when a developer is on hand at the #Wikipedia IRC channel to kill the query should anything go wrong. Please also be aware that Wikipedia:Database queries recommends not running any queries that would take more than ten seconds.

MediaWiki namespace

Signed-in privileges

Users with ordinary access, including visitors who haven't "signed in", can still do many things, including the most important: editing articles and helping with Wikipedia maintenance tasks.

But only signed-up users can upload files or rename pages; see Special:Userlogin to sign up for yourself.

Becoming an administrator

If you would like sysop access add your name to Wikipedia:Requests for adminship.

It's recommended that you write for Wikipedia for a while before requesting administrator status, since other users will have to recognise you before they can agree on your promotion. Also keep in mind that each language's Wikipedia has its own policies for administrators, which may differ somewhat.

Be careful, please! If you are granted access, we ask that you exercise care in using these functions, especially the ability to delete pages and their history, to delete images (which is permanent!), and the ability to block IP addresses.

Developers

The other degree of access is "developer", for those who can make direct changes to the Wikipedia software and database. Check out Wikitech-L and Wikipedia:Developers.

List of administrators

Administrators are marked with "(sysop)" in the list of user accounts. If you need to contact an administrator, visit one or several of the userpages below. Administrators who have not listed their email addresses can still be contacted by using the "email this user" link on the page, if you have signed in with an email address of your own.

The following users have sysop rights as of October 4, 2003. Seven of these (in very strongly emphasized text) also have developer status.

Sysop activity status was checked on October 8, 2003.

Active

  1. 168...
  2. 172
  3. Adam Bishop
  4. Ahoerstemeier
  5. Alex756
  6. Ams80
  7. Andre Engels
  8. Andres
  9. Angela
  10. Anthere
  11. Antonio Martin
  12. Ark30inf
  13. Arwel Parry
  14. AstroNomer
  15. AxelBoldt
  16. Bcorr
  17. Benjamin Esham (aka Bdesham)
  18. Bmills
  19. Brion VIBBER
  20. Bryan Derksen
  21. Caltrop
  22. Camembert
  23. Cgs
  24. Chadloder
  25. Christopher Mahan
  26. Chuck SMITH
  27. cprompt
  28. Cunctator, The
  29. Cyan
  30. CYD
  31. Cyp
  32. Daniel Mayer aka maveric149 or mav -- (talk | email)
  33. Daniel Quinlan
  34. Dante Alighieri
  35. DavidLevinson
  36. David Wheeler
  37. Deb
  38. Delirium
  39. Dgrant aka dave
  40. Dieter Simon
  41. Docu
  42. Dori
  43. Dysprosia
  44. Ed Poor, aka Uncle Ed
  45. Efghij
  46. Eloquence
  47. Enchanter
  48. Epopt, The
  49. Evercat: temporarily self-desysoped from Nov 20 - Dec 17, 2003.
  50. Evil saltine
  51. Fantasy
  52. Finlay McWalter
  53. Fred Bauder
  54. Fuzheado
  55. G-Man
  56. Goatasaur
  57. Hephaestos
  58. Heron
  59. Ihcoyc
  60. Ilyanep -- (email | talk)
  61. Imran
  62. Infrogmation
  63. Jake Nelson
  64. James F.
  65. JeLuF
  66. Jiang
  67. Jimbo Wales
  68. Jimfbleak
  69. Jim Regan
  70. J.J.
  71. jnc (a.k.a. Noel) talk
  72. John Kenney (formerly known as jlk7e)
  73. John Owens | talk
  74. Jtdirl
  75. Jussi-Ville Heiskanen aka Cimon Avaro
  76. Jwrosenzweig
  77. Khym Chanur
  78. Kingturtle
  79. Kosebamse
  80. Kt²
  81. LittleDan
  82. llywrch
  83. Lord Emsworth
  84. LouI
  85. Magnus Manske
  86. Marshman
  87. Martin Harper aka MyRedDice
  88. Marumari
  89. Maximus Rex
  90. Mbecker
  91. Menchi
  92. Merphant
  93. Michael Hardy
  94. Minesweeper
  95. Mintguy
  96. Mirwin
  97. Modemac
  98. Montréalais
  99. Morwen
  100. Muriel Gottrop
  101. Nanobug
  102. Oliver Pereira
  103. Olivier
  104. Optim - talk | optim81 AT yahoo.co.uk
  105. Pakaran
  106. Patrick
  107. Paul A
  108. Paul Melville Austin
  109. Pete
  110. Phil Bordelon
  111. PierreAbbat
  112. Poor Yorick
  113. Pratyeka
  114. Quercusrobur
  115. Ram-Man
  116. Raul654
  117. RickK
  118. Robert Merkel
  119. Salsa Shark
  120. Sannse
  121. Schneelocke
  122. Secretlondon
  123. Sheldon Rampton
  124. silsor
  125. SimonP
  126. Slrubenstein
  127. Smith03
  128. Snoyes
  129. Someone else
  130. Stan Shebs
  131. Stevertigo
  132. sugarfish
  133. Tannin
  134. Tarquin
  135. Taw
  136. The Anome
  137. Theresa Knott
  138. Tim Starling
  139. Timwi
  140. Toby Bartels -- Mail [email protected] if you're having trouble contacting an administrator by other means
  141. Tompagenet
  142. Tristanb
  143. TUF-KAT
  144. Ugen64
  145. Vancouverguy
  146. Viajero
  147. Vicki Rosenzweig
  148. WhisperToMe
  149. Zanimum
  150. Zippy

Inactive

Special: Jasonr (Bomis employee) - inactive for indefinite period in terms of editing but was/is responsible for rebooting the server on what used to be an almost daily basis. He also performs hardware upgrades for us. (contribs)

Sorted by length of inactivity

  1. Tim Shell (Bomis partner) - inactive since 15 Jun 2002 (contribs). Has also contributed as User:Timshell.
  2. Clifford Adams - inactive since 21 Jul 2002 (contribs)
  3. Manning Bartlett - inactive since 27 Sept 2002 (contribs)
  4. LC - inactive since 31 Oct 2002 (contribs)
  5. April - inactive since 8 May 2003 (contribs)
  6. Mark Christensen - inactive since 20 May 2003 (contribs)
  7. WojPob - inactive since 9 Jun 2003 (contribs)
  8. Scipius - inactive since 29 Jun 2003 (contribs)
  9. Khendon - inactive since 2 Jul 2003 (contribs)
  10. JHK - inactive since 3 Jul 2003 (contribs)
  11. RoseParks - inactive since 8 Jul 2003 (contribs)
  12. Peter Winnberg - inactive since 20 Jul 2003 (contribs)
  13. Sjc - inactive since 26 Jul 2003 (contribs)
  14. Lee Daniel Crocker - inactive since 27 Jul 2003 (contribs)
  15. Karen Johnson - inactive since 6 Aug 2003 (contribs)
  16. Zoe - inactive since 15 Aug 2003 (contribs)
  17. Notheruser - inactive since 17 Aug 2003 (contribs)



For those curious, some incorrect attempts to count sysop users also miscount Rambot, which is not a sysop but a specially marked bot account.

Former Administrators

The following users had sysop rights at one time but for various reasons are no longer admins. Some are no longer Wikipedians (See Wikipedia:Missing Wikipedians).

  1. Jheijmans: stopped in 2002
  2. Koyaanis Qatsi: stopped in 2002
  3. Isis: stopped in February 2003
  4. Uwe Kils: stopped in mid-2003
  5. Cordyph: stopped in mid-2003 (self-request)
  6. Stephen Gilbert: stopped in January 2004
  7. Danny: stopped in January 2004

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