Wikiquote:Administrators
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Administrators are Wikiquotians who have "sysop rights". Current English Wikiquote policy is to grant this access liberally to anyone who has been an active Wikiquote contributor for a while and is generally a known and trusted member of the community. "This should be no big deal," as Jimbo has said.
"Sysop" and "administrator" are really misnomers, as they are just Wikiquote users who have had performance and security-based restrictions on a couple of features lifted because they seemed like trustworthy folks and asked nicely. Sysops are not imbued with any special authority, and are equal to everybody else in terms of editorial responsibility.
What's the deal?
The Wiki software has few restricted features, but they are quite important. Sysops can:
- Edit the Main Page, which is protected to prevent vandalism. Anyone can suggest changes to it at Talk:Main Page.
- Edit other protected pages. They can also protect and unprotect pages. For information and guidelines, or to challenge a decision to protect, see Wikiquote:Protected page.
- Delete pages and their history. For information and guidelines, see Wikiquote:Deletion policy. To suggest a page to delete (after reading the policy), see Wikiquote:Votes for deletion. Sometimes deletion is a technical matter, in which a redirection page has to be removed to make way for renaming an article, or a page whose history has been broken up has to be deleted and the pieces recombined. Other times it's a matter of cleaning up simple junk edits on pages with no actual content, or removing material that has been pasted in from another site and infringes copyright.
- Undelete pages and their history. After having been deleted, pages remain in the archive table, and a sysop can undelete the whole pages or parts of their revisions. To challenge a decision to delete a page, see Wikiquote:Deletion review.
- Block IP addresses. See Wikiquote:Blocking policy for guidelines and Special:Ipblocklist for currently blocked addresses. If your IP has been blocked, then you can see which administrator blocked you when you try to edit, and you can contact them individually if you think that there's been a mistake. Otherwise, to challenge a decision to block an IP address, use this page's talk page, or the mailing list (wikiquote-en-admins
lists.wikimedia.org) if it's your IP that has been blocked. This is meant solely to discourage persistent junk edits. IP banning is not meant to be used against unpopular opinions. Because dynamic IPs and proxies are so common with major internet providers, if you've been banned for things someone else did, don't take it personally, just notify the list. - Revert pages rapidly & quietly. Though every user can revert a Wikiquote page, a quicker way is available for administrators. Once they click [rollback] botton on a user contribution page or diff page, it is reverted with a message automatically generated. For recovering vandalism, administrators can revert pages in quiet, adding a bot flag to their reversions. Adding &bot=1 to the url of a user contribution page, and reversion from this page doesn't appear in Recent changes. Administrators should never use this quiet mode to hide reversion for their own personal purposes.
Users with ordinary access, including visitors who haven't "signed in", can still do many things, including the most important: editing articles. But only signed-up users can rename pages; see Special:CreateAccount to sign up for yourself.
Becoming an administrator
If you would like sysop access, add your name to Wikiquote:Requests for adminship.
Current English Wikiquote policy is to grant administrator status to anyone who has been an active Wikiquote contributor for a while and is generally a known and trusted member of the community. Most users seem to agree that the more administrators there are the better.
It's recommended that you write for Wikiquote for a while before requesting administrator status, since other users will have to recognise you before they can agree on your promotion.
Also keep in mind that each other language Wikiquote has its own policies for administrators, which may differ somewhat.
Be careful, please! If you are granted access, we ask that you exercise care in using these functions, especially the ability to delete pages and their history and when deleting images.
Removing an administrator
Inactive administrators
Wikiquote administrators (including those holding bureaucrat, checkuser and oversighter privileges) are considered inactive if they have made no edits and no logged actions within the course of 1 year.
Process
- A notification is sent to the village pump, listing the inactive administrator(s).
- A notice (linking to the inactivity policy) must be placed on the inactive administrator's talk page, explaining that their rights may be removed.
- If no response is received from the administrator as required by the notice after 1 week (whether through their talk page or at the village pump), a steward will be asked to remove the rights.
Votes of confidence
Restricted access depends on the continued support of the community. This may be tested by a vote of confidence, in which a simple majority (50%+1) must support the user's continued access for it to be retained. (What access a discussion concerns should be explicitly noted in the discussion's introduction.) Any user may propose a vote of confidence, but at least three established users must support the need for one before it can be called.
In the case of an unscheduled (called) proposal, the user may not use the restricted access for any non-trivial action at any time until the vote is closed. A bureaucrat will eventually archive the discussion and, if so decided, request removal of restricted access by a steward.
Involved administrators
In general, administrators should avoid using their tools in situations where they may not be impartial, which includes disputes in which they are involved parties. If an administrator is in doubt, they are encouraged to ask for opinions, or to ask another administrator to handle the situation.
List of active administrators
Active administrators can be also contacted by using the "email this user" link on their user page, if you have signed in with an email address of your own. ("Active" means they have made at least one significant edit on this project in the past few months.) A system-generated official list of admins is available at Special:ListAdmins.
The following users currently have sysop privileges on the English Wikiquote:
- BD2412 (en, fr-1, zh-CN-1) (bureaucrat)
- Codename Noreste (es, en-4)
- GreenMeansGo (en) (bureaucrat)
- HouseOfChange (en, fr-3, de-2)
- Illegitimate Barrister (en)
- IOHANNVSVERVS
- Kalki
- Koavf (en, es-2)
- Lemonaka (en-3, zh-1, no-1)
- Ningauble (en)
- PieWriter (fr, en-5, pl-3, ms-2)
- Saroj (ne, en-3, hi-3) (bureaucrat)
- TunnelESON (zh, en-3, fr-1, ko-1)
- UDScott (en) (bureaucrat)
List of former administrators
The following users are former administrators.