Meta:Administrators

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Administrator policies and information

{{#if:WM:A| Shortcut: WM:A }}This page provides information on Meta-Wiki administrators, and lays out relevant policies. For the latest confirmation discussions, see /confirm.

An administrator is a user that can (semi-)protect/unprotect pages, delete/undelete pages and block/unblock users.
For more information on what administrators can do, see also en:wikipedia:Administrators. For adminship requests on this wiki see Meta:Requests for adminship.

For a list of administrators on other WikiMedia projects, see Administrators of Wikimedia projects.

Contents 1 Policy for requesting adminship 1.1 Exceptions 2 Policy for de-adminship 3 List of administrators 4 Former administrators

[edit] Policy for requesting adminship

An admin of any Wikimedia project, following the requirements listed below, can request being an administrator on Meta.

• Having been a participant for at least 2 months on at least one project other than Meta (at least 100 contributions)
• Having a user page on Meta, with link(s) to a local project user page, and a valid contact address (registered and valid wikipedia email address in preferences, or an email address indicated on their user page)
• Being (or perhaps having been some time ago) an active contributor on Meta (more than 100 contributions)
• Being a sysop, bureaucrat or checkuser on a local Wikipedia or related project

The request shall be done on Meta:Requests for adminship. A time for opinion of at least one week will be given. The candidate will be named sysop here only if they are approved by a qualified majority of at least 75%. All editors with an account on Meta, at least one active account on any Wikimedia project, and a link between the two, may participate and give their opinion on the candidate. In case of an opposition, enough people must speak for the candidate for them to become sysop on meta.

If the candidate becomes a sysop, they should add their name to Administrator list, and ensure they keep a valid user name page, links to at least one other project, and valid contact. Administrators not respecting these rules will be de-sysoped.

See also: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/count_edits?user=UserName&dbname=metawiki_p

[edit] Exceptions

It is helpful for some people to have access to some protected pages on meta (related to languages files). In such cases, two options are possible:

• Temporary unprotection of these pages, so that the user can quietly work on them for a limited time.
• Temporary sysoping of the user in question so they can edit the protected pages. In this case, the adminship shall be granted with no requirements and approval, but the user will promise to limit their activity to the necessity of their local project. Preferably, the admin status will be temporary.

[edit] Policy for de-adminship

Temporary sysop status
Sysop-hood can be granted temporarily. For example, people starting up a new project need to be able to work on some protected pages on meta to set up their project. Temporary sysop status will be removed after 30 days.

Inactivity
Any sysop inactive on meta for a full year will be de-sysoped. "Inactive" means no edits in the past 6 months and less than 50 edits in the last year. They may re-apply through the regular way.

Poll after a year
Sysop-hood is not a lifetime status. Get it if you need it. Keep it if people trust you. Quit it if you do not need it. Lose it if people feel they cannot trust you. Sysop status on meta will be granted for one year. After that time, people will be able to vote to oppose a sysop. If there is no opposition for the sysop to stay sysop, then they stay sysop. If opposition is voiced, then the sysop may lose sysopship if support falls below 75%. No quorum is required. It is not a vote to gain support status, but a poll to express disagreement with the current situation. The point is not to bug everyone to vote to support the sysop again (if there is no opposition, there is no point in voting your support again), the point is to not allow sysop-hood status to stay a lifetime status. If a sysop is not really strongly infringing rules, but is creating work for the community because of a lack of trust, then it is best that people have the possibility to express their opposition.

Page for confirmation/removal: Meta:Administrators/confirm

[edit] List of administrators

The following users have sysop rights on Meta. (See also a list of Meta bureaucrats.) Template:List of administrators

Honorary, beloved and atemporal admin

• Jimbo Wales

Named admin third quarter 2006, status to be confirmed in October 2007

• Mxn
• MaxSem
• Dbl2010

Confirmed in October 2006, status to be confirmed in October 2007

• Patrick
• Raul654
• Rdsmith4
• Jdforrester
• Shizhao
• David.Monniaux
• Mindspillage

Named admin fourth quarter 2006, status to be confirmed in January 2008

• Flcelloguy
• guillom
• Improv
• Mzlla
• Timichal
• Dmcdevit
• Andre Engels
• .anaconda

Confirmed in January 2007, status to be confirmed in January 2008

• Angela
• Anthere
• Aphaia
• Brion VIBBER
• Eloquence
• Walter
• Tim Starling
• Akl
• notafish
• M/
• Korg

Named admin first quarter 2007, status to be confirmed in April 2008

• Slade
• Effeietsanders
• Redux
• Shanel
• Dario vet
• Drini
• Zanimum
• Bastique
• Eagle 101
• Cbrown1023
• Sean Whitton
• Majorly
• Lar
• xaosflux
• Nishkid64
• Dungodung
• Nick1915

Confirmed in April 2007, status to be confirmed in April 2008

• Cspurrier
• Fantasy
• Hashar
• JamesDay
• Jon Harald Søby
• Kate
• Kph
• Millosh
• +sj+
• Yann

Named admin second quarter 2007, status to be confirmed in July 2008

• Herbythyme
• Thogo
• JzG
• Tangotango

Confirmed in second quarter 2007, status to be confirmed in July 2008

• Ambush Commander
• Andrevan
• Datrio
• Elian
• GerardM
• oscar
• Pathoschild
• Snowdog
• Suisui
• UninvitedCompany
• Zocky

Named admin third quarter 2007, status to be confirmed in October 2008

• Kylu
• Thunderhead

Temporary adminship

• Dschwen
• Gribeco

[edit] Former administrators

According to meta policy, the following sysops have been de-sysoped (this was an administrative de-sysoping, not one for any infringement). They may request being sysops again any time.

• Enchanter - no user page, no email contact, limited contributions in the past year.
• Hemanshu - no user page, no email contact, request was rather meant to be temporary, Anthere checked with Hemanshu on irc, he said he did not need to be admin here.
• Kaihsu - no user page, no email contact, limited contribution in the past year.
• Imran - was temporarily sysopped between 5 May and 20 June, 2004 to work on protected pages relating to the board elections and did not apply for permanent adminship.
• Dori - requested self-deadminship.
• Elf - was a temporary admin throughout October 2004 to edit MediaWiki namespace pages.
• Magnus Manske - lack of activity. Removed in January 2005.
• Root - lack of activity. Removed in January 2005.
• Tarquin - lack of activity. Removed in January 2005.
• Alvaro - lack of activity. Removed in January 2005.
• Bmills - lack of activity. Removed in April 2005.
• Marumari - lack of activity. Removed in April 2005.
• Pcb21 - lack of activity. Removed in April 2005.
• Perl - lack of activity. Removed in April 2005.
• Meelar - lack of activity. Removed in April 2005.
• Viajero - lack of activity. Removed in April 2005.
• Taw - lack of activity. Removed in April 2005.
• CatherineMunro - was temporarily sysopped throughout March and April 2005 for editing Www.wikipedia.org portal related pages (protected).
• Andre Engels - de-sysoped himself to take a long wikibreak.
• Fire - one opposition in October 2005 (Elian), listed inactive end of 2005. Removed in December 2005.
• Robbot - sysop bot. Test. Non approved. Removed in December 2005.
• Looxix - Sysop, steward. Inactive. Removed in December 2005.
• AstroNomer - Sysop, bureaucrat, steward. No edits in 6 months, less than 20 edits in a year. No steward action since elected. Removed in December 2005.
• KarlWick - lack of activity. Removed in March 2006.
• Christian List - lack of activity. Removed in May 2006.
• Dante Alighieri - lack of activity. Removed in May 2006.
• E23 - lack of activity. Removed in May 2006.
• Maximus Rex - lack of activity. Removed in May 2006.
• Pakaran - lack of activity. Removed in May 2006.
• Toby Bartels - lack of activity. Removed in May 2006.
• RN - requested to be de-sysoped. Removed in May 2006.
• Jean-Christophe Chazalette (villy) - de-sysoped himself in June 2006.
• Barrie - was temporarily sysoped between 12 May and 17 July 2006 to translate (language files, etc.) to the basque language (eu).
• Timichal - was temporarily sysoped between 12 June and 20 July 2006 to deal with pages moved to incubatorwiki.
• Aoineko, lack of activity. Removed in September 2006.
• BCorr, lack of activity. Was found removed in September 2006.
• Amgine - requested to be de-sysoped. Removed in September 2006.
• Waerth - requested to be de-sysoped. Removed in October 2006.
• ArnoLagrange - failed confirmation October 2006.
• Taichi - requested self-deadminship in November 2006.
• Mark Ryan - requested self-deadminship in January 2007.
• Daniel Mayer - status removed after confirmation poll in January 2007.
• Alex756 - status removed after confirmation poll in January 2007.
• Who - status removed after confirmation poll in January 2007.
• Essjay - requested to be de-sysoped. Removed March 4, 2007.
• Danny - de-sysoped himself in March 2007.
• silsor - status removed after confirmation poll in March 2007.
• Stevertigo - status removed after confirmation poll in March 2007.
• Timwi - status removed after confirmation poll in March 2007.
• TUF-KAT - status removed after confirmation poll in March 2007.
• Linuxbeak - status removed after confirmation poll in March 2007.
• brian0918 - status removed after confirmation poll in March 2007.
• Arwel Parry - status removed after confirmation poll in March 2007.
• Nichtich - failed reconfirmation in April 2007.
• Naconkantari - requested to be de-sysoped. Removed in June 2007.

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