Wiki:Administrators
- Not to be confused with System administrators
Like other systems, this wiki has a user role or administrators or sysops. These people can block users, 'delete' pages, 'protect' pages and a few other special wiki operations. They mainly act as janitors or operators, hence the name system operators within this wiki.
- Deanna Earley talk contribs
- Dorothea talk contribs
- EdLoach talk contribs
- Firefishy talk contribs
- Gnonthgol talk contribs
- Harry Wood talk contribs
- Lyx talk contribs
- Minh Nguyen talk contribs
- Pigsonthewing talk contribs
- Reneman talk contribs
- SomeoneElse talk contribs
- Steve talk contribs
- Tigerfell talk contribs
- ToeBee talk contribs
- TomH talk contribs
- Uboot talk contribs
- Yurik talk contribs
- Abuse filter (log) (technical account)
The main purpose of having administrators is to deal with sensitive clean up and maintenance work. In case you need assistance and are not certain if administrative powers are required, you might want to consider contacting a member of the wiki team or post your question at Talk:Wiki.
Role of admins in the wiki
Administrators are trusted users who have access to additional tools in order to carry out maintenance in the wiki. Apart from that, they are ordinary users and do not have a special editorial authority by their position. As opposed to the forum and the main webpage which feature a user group of the same name, most wiki administrators do not have the power to promote other users to administrators. All of the administrators are limited to the respective system i.e. wiki administrators do not have administrative permissions in the forum, except for people being admin in both systems.
Most administrators can be reached via their talk page (see column) or via the e-mail feature.
Typical tasks
Out of all administrator's permissions, the most typical actions include:
- delete and undelete pages and files
- view deleted pages
- protect pages in case of edit wars
- block users temporarily or indefinitely
- edit configuration files like the links in the menu
- move pages without creating redirects
- edit common CSS, JavaScript, JSON, and gadgets
- manage abuse filters
- unblock themselves if an abuse filter blocked them
Former administrators
These users used to hold administrator privileges in this wiki. Most of them lost their rights due to inactivity.
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Ben renamed by firefishy (previously "Ben") (also bureaucrat, no logged actions at all)- CoreyBurger
- Emj
- Gravitystorm (Andy Allan on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) (resigned)
- Matt (also bureaucrat)
- Morwen (also bureaucrat)
- Oliver.kuehn
- Putnik
- Simone