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Dumitru D. Coman - age 44 - is an American Author, born in Brasov, Romania on May 31 1969. He is also a six-time National Judo champion in his native country of Romania. He received a Silver Medal in 1990 and also won five consecutive Gold medals the following years from 1991 to 1995. In 1996 he became eligible to represent his country by competing in the summer Olympic Games held in Atlanta, Georgia - USA. Unfortunately Dumitru D. Coman's career in professional Martial Arts (Judo) was abruptly ended due to an automobile accident that took place during the month of February, 1996. He is currently a US Citizen and has published eight books in the genre of personal developement and motivational self-help. These works include the following titles: (1) The Power to Succeed and Conquere your Negative Thoughts; (2) We are Born to Fight, to Win, to Conquer and Overcome; (3) The Power to Acheive Your Dream; (4) Powerful Thinking, Powerful Results; (5) Believe in Yourself in the Face of Overwhelming Self-Doubt; (6) Connecting to a Power Beyond You; (7) Believe You Can; (8) The Master Key to Judo. Dumitru D. Coman's books can be found on Amazon.com/ bookexpress.ro - USA, UK, Germany, Italy and other countries worldwide.
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[[{{lm|Sysopprotectform|png}}|right|thumb|<translate><!--T:2--> The Protect form.</translate>]]

[[{{lm|Sysopblockform|png}}|right|thumb|<translate><!--T:3--> The Block form (image when blocking [[<tvar name="1">Special:MyLanguage/Blocked user</tvar>|user accounts]]).</translate>]]

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'''Administrators''' (also known as '''sysops''', '''system operators''' or shortly '''admins''') are users with the technical ability to:

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* delete and undelete pages, and view deleted revisions of pages;
* block and unblock users, individual IP addresses, and ranges of IP addresses;
* protect and unprotect pages, and edit [[<tvar name=h-protect>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Protection</tvar>|protected pages]];
* (if available) set the stable viewing level of a page (see [<tvar name=1>https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Help:Tracking_changes#Reviewing_pages</tvar> here] for an example)
* edit most pages in the [[<tvar name=mw-ns>mw:Special:MyLanguage/Help:System message</tvar>|MediaWiki namespace]];
* import pages from other Wikimedia projects;
* perform other functions related to the technical maintenance;
* add and remove users from some usergroups, such as [[<tvar name=rollback>Special:MyLanguage/Help:Reverting#Rollback</tvar>|rollback]], [[<tvar name=ip-ex>Special:MyLanguage/IP block exempt</tvar>|IP block exempt]] or [[<tvar name=flooder>Special:MyLanguage/Flooder</tvar>|flooder]].

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Administrators can perform these actions only on a wiki on which they have been given adminship.

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The role and expectations of administrators, as well as the policies surrounding their behavior, vary widely among the different projects. While administrators have more technical abilities than ordinary users, this should not be confused with authority, which is earned separately and given by the community. Some wiki sites may not even have adopted written policies for administrators or candidates for adminship. This is usually due to limited number of users and activities.

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Some projects use different terms for administrators. For example, the English Wikiversity uses "custodian", while the Spanish Wikipedia uses what translates into "librarian".

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All "administrative" actions are logged and reversible by any other administrator. The same principle applies to all the special permissions on MediaWiki, although some are not publicly logged: see for instance [[<tvar name=policy>Special:MyLanguage/CheckUser policy</tvar>|checkusers]], who need to be at least a couple on each [[<tvar name=projects>Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia projects</tvar>|Wikimedia project]] to check each other. This makes their activity closely scrutinized by the community at large. In particular, it is comparable to the ''[[w:en:Ius intercessionis|ius intercessionis]]'' or the [[w:en:Roman consul|Roman consuls]]' veto: an intrinsic system for consensual action, reciprocal control, and prevention of abuse. Its degeneration, when the system fails to actually prevent abuse and such powers have to be in fact exercised (multiple times) to reverse a previous action, is the so-called ''[[w:Wikipedia:Wheel war|wheel war]]''.

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Administrators are subject to the global [[<tvar name=policy>Special:MyLanguage/Admin activity review</tvar>|admin activity review]] policy, which stipulates that their rights may be removed if inactive for more than two years.


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* [[Administrators of Wikimedia projects]]
* [[<tvar name=wm-admins>Administrators of Wikimedia projects</tvar>|Administrators of Wikimedia projects]]
* {{ll|Meta:Administrators}} – administrators on Meta
* <tvar name=meta-admins>{{ll|Meta:Administrators}}</tvar> – administrators on Meta
* [[mw:Manual:Administrators]] – for information about the designation "Administrator" within the MediaWiki software, for users of MediaWiki projects which are not part of the Wikimedia Foundation
* [[<tvar name=mw-admins>mw:Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Administrators</tvar>|Manual:Administrators]] on the MediaWiki.org – for information about the designation "Administrator" within the MediaWiki software, for users of MediaWiki projects which are not part of the Wikimedia Foundation</translate>
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Latest revision as of 08:52, 13 September 2023

Other languages:
The Delete form.
The Protect form.
The Block form (image when blocking user accounts).

Administrators (also known as sysops, system operators or shortly admins) are users with the technical ability to:

  • delete and undelete pages, and view deleted revisions of pages;
  • block and unblock users, individual IP addresses, and ranges of IP addresses;
  • protect and unprotect pages, and edit protected pages;
  • (if available) set the stable viewing level of a page (see here for an example)
  • edit most pages in the MediaWiki namespace;
  • import pages from other Wikimedia projects;
  • perform other functions related to the technical maintenance;
  • add and remove users from some usergroups, such as rollback, IP block exempt or flooder.

Administrators can perform these actions only on a wiki on which they have been given adminship.

The role and expectations of administrators, as well as the policies surrounding their behavior, vary widely among the different projects. While administrators have more technical abilities than ordinary users, this should not be confused with authority, which is earned separately and given by the community. Some wiki sites may not even have adopted written policies for administrators or candidates for adminship. This is usually due to limited number of users and activities.

Some projects use different terms for administrators. For example, the English Wikiversity uses "custodian", while the Spanish Wikipedia uses what translates into "librarian".

All "administrative" actions are logged and reversible by any other administrator. The same principle applies to all the special permissions on MediaWiki, although some are not publicly logged: see for instance checkusers, who need to be at least a couple on each Wikimedia project to check each other. This makes their activity closely scrutinized by the community at large. In particular, it is comparable to the ius intercessionis or the Roman consuls' veto: an intrinsic system for consensual action, reciprocal control, and prevention of abuse. Its degeneration, when the system fails to actually prevent abuse and such powers have to be in fact exercised (multiple times) to reverse a previous action, is the so-called wheel war.

Administrators are subject to the global admin activity review policy, which stipulates that their rights may be removed if inactive for more than two years.

See also

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