On Wikipedia, trusted users may be appointed as administrators (also referred to as admins, sysops or janitors),: 327  following a successful request...

place additional warnings, though only administrators can carry out the block. In 2005, the English Wikipedia started to require those who create new...

edited Wikipedia for paying clients, using "an army" of sockpuppet accounts that purportedly included 45 Wikipedia editors and administrators. In 2015...

editors were becoming administrators compared to Wikipedia's earlier years, in part because the process of vetting potential administrators had become more...

all Wikipedias (down from more than 50% in 2003). The English Wikipedia currently has 47,314,866 registered accounts of which 861 are administrators. The...

started writing on Wikipedia", because "administrators want to exploit high-school and university students, the most common users of Wikipedia, to change their...

is still in effect. Another important difference is that while Wikipedia administrators are elected for an indefinite period, anybody can start a formal...

separate pages dedicated to that purpose and are not deleted. Wikipedia administrators can see content that has been deleted, but other editors and visitors...

and power differentials" between administrators and other editors. Analyzing the entire edit history of English Wikipedia up to July 2006, the same study...

number of administrators. The German edition of Wikipedia was the first non-English Wikipedia subdomain, and was originally named deutsche.wikipedia.com. Its...

generated by Lsjbot, a bot, or software application. The administrators on the Swedish Wikipedia (currently 65) are elected for a fixed-term period of one...

Chinese Wikipedia were translated from the English version. The first five sysops, or administrators, were promoted on 14 June 2003. Wikipedia was first...

Japanese Wikipedia (ウィキペディア日本語版, Wikipedia Nihongoban, lit. 'Wikipedia Japanese-language version') is the Japanese-language edition of Wikipedia, a free...

situation began to improve for the Italian Wikipedia: users started to sign in, and the functions of administrators and semi-protection were implemented. This...

involved in the campaign were sanctioned by Wikipedia administrators. Israeli diplomat David Saranga said that Wikipedia is generally fair in regard to Israel...

become Wikipedia administrators, to better influence the encyclopedia's articles. McElroy, Damien (7 May 2008). "Israeli battles rage on Wikipedia". The...

co-opting Croatian Wikipedia throughout the 2010s were banned or demoted in 2021, when it was found that one of the most active administrators took control...

pretend to be interested in other topics until elected as administrators. Once administrators they were to misuse their administrative powers to suppress...

and German Wikipedia administrators regarding the German Wikipedia's notability criteria, and issued a press statement. Criticism of Wikipedia § Notability...

Spanish Wikipedia. March 25, 2009: the first oversighters are elected. They can delete edits such that they cannot be seen by regular administrators. April...

Russian Wikipedia administrators to remove an article about charas (Чарас), a type of cannabis, by 21 August 2015 or else they would block Wikipedia (which...

The Wikipedia community, collectively and individually known as Wikipedians, is an online community of volunteers who create and maintain Wikipedia, an...

and inconsistent editors/administrators. Many online encyclopedias exist. Some have been proposed as replacements for Wikipedia, including Google's since-closed...

The Russian Wikipedia (Russian: Русская Википедия, romanized: Russkaya Vikipediya) is the Russian-language edition of Wikipedia. As of April 2024, it...

case involving Scientology was brought before Wikipedia's Arbitration Committee. Wikipedia administrators presented evidence during the case that Church...

the Wikipedia version logs, in effect removing them from all but Wikipedia administrators' view. Some mirror websites not controlled by Wikipedia continued...

resulted in numerous incorrect changes to Wikipedia articles related to elephants and Africa. Wikipedia administrators subsequently restricted edits to the...

used term for a system operator, an administrator of a multi-user website Wikipedia administrators System administrator, a person responsible for running...

editing Wikipedia, revoked the administrative rights of twelve accounts, and warned twelve other users. Four of the top ten most active administrators on Chinese...

articles, 2,499 active users, and 32 administrators. It was created on May 3, 2002. However, at that time, Wikipedia ran on UseModWiki software. The three...