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Wikipedia has no central editorial board. Contributions are made by a large number of volunteers at their own discretion. Edits are neither the responsibility of the Wikimedia Foundation (the organisation that hosts the site) nor of its staff and edits will not generally be made in response to an email request.
Remove administrator status from someone. This is done by bureaucrats or stewards, and only on the request of the Arbitration Committee or by request of the administrator. Query the Wikipedia database. Ask at Wikipedia:SQL query requests, or download the database and run them yourself. Reassign edits or make name changes.
Tip of the day – provides "very useful" advice daily on how to use or develop Wikipedia more effectively. See also Wikipedia:Tips , the complete library of tips arranged by subject. User page design center – where you will find all the resources for developing your user page.
When you first mention an article or any other Wikipedia page, provide a wikilink to it by wrapping its name into a pair of square brackets ([[ ]]). For example, [[Horse]] links to Horse . When you first mention other users, link to their user page by using the template {{user|Username}} .
If your question is about a Wikipedia article, draft article, or other page on Wikipedia, tell us what it is! Check back on this page to see if your question has been answered. For real-time help, use our IRC help channel, #wikipedia-en-help. New editors may prefer the Teahouse, a help area for beginners (but please don't ask in both places).
Wikipedia is written almost exclusively by volunteers — people from across the world, just like you. This means that sometimes it contains incorrect information, either accidentally or deliberately. If you find some incorrect information, there are a few things you can do. First, you can fix it yourself! Anyone can edit Wikipedia.
If you are a member of the press looking to contact the Wikimedia Foundation, our press department can be contacted at press wikimedia.org, or by phoning +1 415-839-6885. We also have international contacts, some of whom work for various affiliated organisations and some of whom are editors.
This is a guide to current practice at Wikipedia's requests for adminship (RfA) process, the mechanism by which editors are considered for administrator status. To become an administrator, there needs to be a clear consensus that you are committed to Wikipedia and can be trusted to know and uphold its policies and guidelines.