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Logo for the Wikipedia CheckUser tool and the checkuser team. The CheckUser tool is used by a small group of trusted Wikipedia users (called checkusers).The tool allows its users to determine from Wikipedia's servers the IP addresses used by a Wikipedia user account, as well as other technical data stored by the server about a user account or IP address.
Two words for the same thing. An administrator is simply a volunteer Wikipedian who can access some of the few restricted Wikipedia software functions: deleting articles and files, protecting and unprotecting pages, and blocking and unblocking users.
To check if the lists below are up to date, check the user rights log for any new admins who have not been added. New selections are recorded at Wikipedia:Successful requests for adminship, and removals of adminship are recorded at Wikipedia:Former administrators. If you need to contact an administrator about deletions; undeletions; page protection
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.
A user named Essjay falsely claimed to have multiple university degrees. He attained a position of community trust and became a CheckUser. This was a Wikipedia problem because according to Kozminski University, IP addresses are considered sensitive information. [16]
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A user's access level depends on which rights (also called permissions, user groups, bits, or flags) are assigned to accounts. There are two types of access leveling: automatic and requested. User access levels are determined by whether the Wikipedian is logged in, the account's age and edit count, and what manually assigned rights the account has.
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