Administrators
, also known as
admins
or
sysops
(system operators), are Wikibookians who are generally well-known and trusted by the community. Administrators have the added abilities of being able to delete pages and block users for a specified period of time. Administrators are not granted any extra authority; they must follow all policies.
Actions
Administrators can perform the following special actions, which include but are not limited to:
Becoming an administrator
Administrators will only be created after a discussion at
Wikibooks:Requests for permissions
results in a consensus of acceptance. Wikibookians may either request permissions themselves, or be nominated by another. A user nominated to become an administrator must accept the nomination explicitly, either on
Wikibooks:Requests for permissions
or on their user talk page before the discussion begins.
While there are no specific requirements for a user to become an administrator, they should be "well-known and trusted" members of the community, and expected to be familiar with policies, such as (but not limited to)
blocking
deleting/undeleting
, and
protecting
Requests for adminship generally should be advertised using the
{{
RfA notice
}}
template on the
sitenotice
Removing an administrator
Administrators can be nominated for removal (also known as de-adminship) at
Wikibooks:Requests for permissions
Inactive administrators
Administrators that have made zero edits
and
zero logged actions in the span of one year (or more) will be listed under the removal section of
Wikibooks:Requests for permissions
, where they are given two weeks to respond so they can retain their administrative privileges, unless they specify otherwise. After listing the inactive administrators, they must be notified on their user talk pages. If no response is received in two weeks, a request will be forwarded to the removal section of
m:Steward requests/Permissions
, where a steward will remove the rights.
Voluntary removal
Sysops requesting de-adminship themselves will have that request granted immediately, not being subject to community approval. Should a sysop have his/her privileges removed, the user may re-apply for adminship at a later date without prejudice.
Temporary administrators
Temporary administrators are users that are given adminship on a temporary basis. Typically, adminship is granted to perform specialist tasks that only administrators can perform, but would likely be too cumbersome or difficult for permanent administrators to do so.
Temporary administrators must apply at
Wikibooks:Requests for permissions
in the usual fashion, with the following differences:
If candidates lack experience on English Wikibooks, experience and trust on other Wikimedia Foundation projects can be highly relevant.
Candidates should describe the precise tasks for which they need administrator-only rights, if this is proposed.
Following a consensus to promote, adminship should only be granted for the shortest duration needed. Renewals can be requested at
Wikibooks:Requests for permissions
Temporary administrators should only use administrator-only rights for the tasks specified at their request for permissions, unless in an emergency. Since they will have access to the entire administrator abilities, they must take care to avoid using administrator-only rights outside of their stated tasks. The temporary admin may ask any permanent administrator for clarifications on what they are allowed/not allowed to do, and can ask any permanent administrator for permission to amend their conditions if needed (for instance, if they need to do something not originally approved).
Any permanent administrator may request a steward to perform de-adminship immediately if there is any evidence that administrator-only rights are being used outside of the agreed tasks without good reason. If possible this should be discussed with the temporary admin first but in the event that the permanent administrator has reason to believe that the actions are significantly disruptive then they may ask the Steward to act immediately.
List of functionaries
Temporary administrators are not included in this list, see
Non-regular administrators
below.
Atcovi
discuss
contribs
blocks
protections
deletions
moves
imports
rights
Codename Noreste
discuss
contribs
blocks
protections
deletions
moves
imports
rights
JJPMaster
discuss
contribs
blocks
protections
deletions
moves
imports
rights
JackPotte
discuss
contribs
blocks
protections
deletions
moves
imports
rights
Kittycataclysm
discuss
contribs
blocks
protections
deletions
moves
imports
rights
Leaderboard
discuss
contribs
blocks
protections
deletions
moves
imports
rights
MarcGarver
discuss
contribs
blocks
protections
deletions
moves
imports
rights
SHB2000
discuss
contribs
blocks
protections
deletions
moves
imports
rights
TunnelESON
discuss
contribs
blocks
protections
deletions
moves
imports
rights
Xania
discuss
contribs
blocks
protections
deletions
moves
imports
rights
Non-regular administrators
This wiki allows
global sysops
(and by extension,
stewards
) to perform nearly all admin actions here, pursuant to the
global rights policy
Timeline of positions
Notes
Only
interface administrators
can edit CSS and JS pages in the MediaWiki namespace.
An asterisk (*) indicates that the user is a temporary administrator due to
minimum voting requirements
, but is not under the
temporary administrator policy