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...

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

Chinese Wikipedia. Despite being censored in mainland China, and as VPNs are normally not allowed to edit Wikipedia, Wikipedia administrators from China...

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

all Wikipedias (down from more than 50% in 2003). The English Wikipedia currently has 48,022,219 registered accounts of which 851 are administrators. Editors...

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

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...

against Arabic Wikipedia and Persian Wikipedia, which resulted in a total of 16 users being banned, including seven Arabic Wikipedia administrators. The Wikimedia...

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

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

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

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

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

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

it is the fifth largest Wikipedia by article count. It counts 1,924 active users, including 66 one year-elected administrators. Editing collaborations...

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

to refer to WolframAlpha rather than Wikipedia. The article was fully protected, meaning that only administrators could edit it, from its previous extended...

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

to children. On 18 August 2015, Roskomnadzor instructed Russian Wikipedia administrators to remove the article "Чарас (наркотическое вещество)" ("Charas...

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

articles, 1,992 active users, and 33 administrators. It was created on 3 May 2002. However, at that time, Wikipedia ran on UseModWiki software. The three...

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

articles reported that a decline in English Wikipedia's recruitment of new administrators could end Wikipedia. A 2014 trend analysis published in The Economist...

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

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

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

Spanish Wikipedia. 25 March 2009: the first oversighters are elected. They can delete edits such that they cannot be seen by regular administrators. 15 April...

for "2½ days" before administrative intervention. Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Edit warring Butterfield, Andrew; Ngondi...