Wikispecies:Administrators

To reach an admin immediately, see Administrators' Noticeboard. (If you rather need to reach a Translation administrator, please use the Translation Administrators' Noticeboard instead.)

Administrator access is granted to known and trusted members of the community who are familiar with the policies of Wikispecies. Administrator access is not meant to imply editorial authority on the project.

You can request adminship on Wikispecies if you meet the following criteria:

• You are not completely new to Wikimedia projects. You have been an editor for at least 2 months and you understand and agree with the goals of the project.
• You have a user page on Wikispecies and are a contributor here.
• You agree to follow relevant policies and respect consensus of Wikispecies' users.
• There is a consensus amongst users here that you would be a suitable administrator.

You can use the Admin Stats logs at XTools (2023; 2024) to see up-to-date statistics of our Administrators' activities. The logs will only show activities that are admin-specific; it will not list more commonplace activities such as editing taxon pages or adding comments to talk pages.

As with the policy for administrator access on Meta, inactive Administrators may have their access removed by a Steward.

Administrators' abilities

An admin wielding the mop, a common symbol of administrators. See also: The good admin.

Administrators have the technical ability to perform the following actions:

• block (and unblock) user accounts and IP addresses from editing
• protect (and unprotect) pages to restrict editing of a particular page
• delete and undelete pages
• delete images and other uploaded files
• edit protected pages and the interface (except pages that are restricted to Interface administrators)

Administrators assume these responsibilities as volunteers who go through a community review process. They are not acting as employees of the Wikimedia Foundation. They are never required to use their tools, and must never use them to gain an advantage in a dispute in which they are involved.

Assigning

Administrator status can be assigned by any Bureaucrat, and may be removed by a Steward in cases of abuse.

Misuse of administrative tools

Misusing the administrative tools is considered a serious issue. The administrative tools are provided to trusted users for maintenance and other tasks, and should be used with thought. Serious misuse may result in sanction or even their removal. Misuse, and its consequences, are defined and decided by consensus of the Wikispecies community.

List of Administrators

Wikispecies has 23 administrators (including 1 bot). The current list can be found at Special:ListUsers/sysop.

Administrator	Last activity
1234qwer1234qwer4	2024 (check)
Andyboorman	2024 (check)
Burmeister	2024 (check)
Dan Koehl	2024 (check)
DannyS712	2024 (check)
EncycloPetey	2024 (check)
Faendalimas	2024 (check)
Floscuculi	2023 (check)
Hector Bottai	2024 (check)
Keith Edkins	2024 (check)
Koavf	2024 (check)
Mariusm	2024 (check)
MKOliver	2024 (check)
MPF	2024 (check)
Neferkheperre	2024 (check)
OhanaUnited	2024 (check)
PeterR	2024 (check)
Pigsonthewing	2024 (check)
RLJ	2024 (check)
Thiotrix	2024 (check)
Tommy Kronkvist	2024 (check)

Bots with admin status:	Last activity
Abuse filter*	2013 (check)*

(* This bot is fully automated and performs actions triggered by the equally fully automated and global MediaWiki AbuseFilter extension. As a side effect, its actions doesn't show up locally in the Wikispecies' public activity logs. Instead, the last activity date shows when the bot was first enabled on Wikispecies.)

Tools

• IP Check
• PatrolStats

IRC for admins

Wikispecies has an IRC-channel as an option for live communication; #wikispecies-admins (IRC channel), which is accessible for invited members.

Instructions

1. Before you can request access, you must register your nickname and log in.
2. Type "/nick theusernameyouwantgoeshere" to switch to that username,
   register by typing "/msg nickserv register yourpassword youremail".
   To keep your email address private, type: "/msg nickserv set hidemail on"
   To keep others from using your name while you're offline, type: "/msg nickserv set enforce on"
   In the future, you must login by typing "/msg nickserv identify yourpasswordgoeshere" (some clients can do this automatically when you connect).

You access the channel with command /join #wikispecies-admins.

Mailing list

There is a mailing list located at mail:wikispecies-admin. This is a useful tool for coordination off-wiki; it is recommended that admins sign up for the list.

Admin userbox on Wikispecies

This user is an administrator on Wikispecies. (verify)

Administrators may use the administrator user box on their user page. Copy and paste the following code to your user page:

{{User Admin}}

Userbox on Meta-Wiki

If you have a Meta-Wiki user page, you can put the Wikispecies admin user box for Meta on your Meta-Wiki user page.

Requests for adminship

Please explain here why you need administrator access. After seven days, if there is general agreement that you should be an administrator, one of the bureaucrats will fulfill the request.

You can use {{subst:RFA|Username|Why you want to be a sysop.}} when making a request to automatically create the form.

Current requests

• None

Past requests

• Archive 1
• Archive 2
• Archive 3
• Archive 4