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User groups have one or more rights assigned to them; for example, the IP block-exempt (IP block exemptions) group has the ' ipblock-exempt ' and ' torunblocked ' rights. All members of a particular user group will have access to these rights. The individual rights that are assigned to user groups are listed at Special:ListGroupRights.
Wikipedia's administrative tools are often likened to a janitor's mop, leading to adminship being described at times as being "given the mop".Just like a real-world janitor might have keys to offices that some other workers are excluded from, admins have some role-specific abilities, but – also like a real-world janitor – they're not more important than the other editors.
One of the administrative privileges is the ability to grant and revoke user groups, more commonly referred to under the misnomer permissions or rights. [1] Each user right has a set of prerequisites that candidates should generally meet.
This page enables administrators to handle requests for permissions on the English Wikipedia. Administrators are able to modify account creator, autopatrolled, confirmed, file mover, extended confirmed, mass message sender, new page reviewer, page mover, pending changes reviewer, rollback, and template editor rights, and AutoWikiBrowser access.
There are so many other admin tasks that you can already do that until you really start to find there are things that you cannot do there, there is not much point in trying to become an admin. Indeed, only when you have had a good amount of experience in admin-related tasks are you likely to succeed in an application. RfA can be a harsh process.
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Administrators have some technical privileges not enjoyed by other editors, such as the ability to protect and delete pages and to block users from editing pages. On Wikipedia, becoming an administrator is often referred to as "being given [or taking up] the mop", [3] a term which has also been used elsewhere. [4]
If you have never edited Wikipedia before and/or do not have an account, you may need to create one. This will normally allow you to edit despite the block on your IP address. If you are currently blocked from creating an account, and cannot create one elsewhere in the foreseeable future, consider requesting one at Wikipedia:Request an account .