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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.
Users who are granted and possess the Oversight flag (suppress user group [15]) have access to additional options on the page deletion, revision deletion, and block function pages through which they can hide logs or revisions of pages (partially or entirely) from any form of usual access by all other users, including administrators.
See § Administrator recall. Users may also use dispute resolution to request comment on an administrator's suitability. The technical ability to remove the administrator user right from an account is granted to the bureaucrat and steward user groups (see Special:ListGroupRights).
All former administrators may now only regain the tools following a request at the Wikipedia:Bureaucrats' noticeboard within 5 years of their most recent admin action. Previously this applied only to administrators deysopped for inactivity. Following a request for comment, a new speedy deletion criterion, T5, has been enacted. This applies to ...
Press the "Edit user groups" button to bring up the User rights management screen. This screen can also be accessed by via the link "User rights management" under the Tools section of your sidebar, visible when you are on a page in a user's userspace. In our case, you can find the link when you are on the page User:ThisIsaTest.
As a result, in practice administrators are the face of authority on Wikipedia: they enforce rules, take measures to prevent further disruption (in the form of blocks and bans), declare what the status quo is, and are generally deferred to, giving them a status with more protection than other users. Administrators are less likely to be subject ...
Administrators have additional technical privileges compared with other editors, such as being able to protect and delete pages and being able 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]
Please note that administrators cannot... Resolve disputes. Try the dispute resolution process instead. However, administrators, or other experienced users, may be willing to informally offer an opinion if you ask them privately (for example, via user talk page). Fix bugs. You can report them at Phabricator. Make someone an administrator.