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'''Administrators''' (also known as '''sysops''') are [[Diary of a Wimpy Kid Wiki:About|Diary of a Wimpy Kid Wiki]] users who have administrator rights.
'''Administrator''', commonly known as '''admins''' or '''[[wikipedia:Sysop|sysops]]''', is an advanced group of trusted users who have been granted the technical ability to perform certain special actions, these abilities include, blocking and unblocking user accounts, IP addresses, and IP ranges from editing, protecting pages (preventing them from being edited by users who are not [[Project:Autoconfirmed users|autoconfirmed]], or in rare cases by non-administrators), editing the interface (changing the look of the wiki by editing pages in the MediaWiki namespace), deleting and undeleting all pages, and moving (renaming) pages without restriction, and using certain other tools.


==List of administrators==
==See also==
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 50%; text-align: center;"
*[[Help:Group rights]]: a quick overview of the different types of user rights.
!Name
*[[Special:ListAdmins]]: a list of all administrators, including inactive ones.
!State
|-
| '''[[User:Scrooge200|Scrooge200]] ([[User talk:Scrooge200|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Scrooge200|contribs]])
| ''{{color|Gray|Inactive}}''
|-
| '''[[User:Tech Support|Tech Support]] ([[User talk:Tech Support|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Tech Support|contribs]])
| ''{{color|Gray|Inactive}}''
|-
| '''[[User:Username|Username]] ([[User talk:Username|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Username|contribs]])'''
| {{color|Orange|Semi-active}}
|}


==Administrator abilities==
[[Category:User groups|Advanced]]
The MediaWiki software has a few important features that are restricted to administrators. Compared to [[Diary of a Wimpy Kid Wiki:Users|regular users]], administrators have the ability to:
*Change wiki prefixes in [[Special:Interwiki]].
*[[mw:Help:Blocking users|Block]] a user or IP address from editing.
*[[mw:Help:Deletion and undeletion|Delete]] and undelete pages, page histories, images, or files.
*[[mw:Help:Protecting and unprotecting pages|Protect]] a page so it cannot be edited or moved by users without admin rights.
*Mark edits as [[mw:Help:Patrolled edits|patrolled]].
*{{wp|Help:Reverting#Rollback|Rollback}} disruptive/unconstructive edits.
 
{{for|a quick overview of the different types of user rights|Help:Group rights}}
 
[[Category:User groups]]

Latest revision as of 20:22, 28 December 2023

Administrator, commonly known as admins or sysops, is an advanced group of trusted users who have been granted the technical ability to perform certain special actions, these abilities include, blocking and unblocking user accounts, IP addresses, and IP ranges from editing, protecting pages (preventing them from being edited by users who are not autoconfirmed, or in rare cases by non-administrators), editing the interface (changing the look of the wiki by editing pages in the MediaWiki namespace), deleting and undeleting all pages, and moving (renaming) pages without restriction, and using certain other tools.

See also