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A list of all users who are currently administrators (sometimes referred to as "sysops") in the English Wikipedia can be found .There are 847 (as of now) administrator accounts (active and otherwise), 453 of them active (as of 2025-01-16).
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Another paper, presented at the 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, analyzed data from all 1,551 requests for adminship from January 2006 to October 2007, with the goal of determining which (if any) of the criteria recommended in Wikipedia's Guide to requests for adminship [19] were the best predictors of whether the user in ...
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.
Note: See also a complete list of current Wikipedia administrators.. This category and its subcategories contain the user pages of some Wikipedia administrators.These categories are not necessarily either complete or accurate.
Welcome, admins!This suite of pages documents common admin tasks and how to properly perform them. Administrative tools have been granted due to the trust the community has in you, so it's important you understand how they work before attempting to use them.
Wikipedia requires a certain amount of administration and governance in order to further the project's goals.To achieve Wikipedia's purpose, a wide range of administrative pages are made available in various namespaces which enumerate the various protocols and conventions created and implemented by community consensus for English Wikipedia.
The ability to edit JS/CSS that is executed in other users' browsers is very powerful, and extremely dangerous in the hands of a malicious user; interface administrators should be users who are highly trusted, have at least a basic understanding of JS and CSS, are aware of the privacy expectations of Wikimedia wikis, and have a decent understanding of how to secure their accounts (such as ...