This page details what Administrators are able to do.
Administrators[]
Technical management[]
- Have access to several restricted special pages, including but not limited to:
- Mass classify many templates at once.
- Alter the Mobile Main Page.
- Edit & delete whitelisted files & messages in the Mediawiki namespace.[5]
Page management[]
- Alter protection settings to control who can perform what actions to a page.
- Change protection levels:
- All — anyone can perform a given action.
- Autoconfirmed — only autoconfirmed users may perform a given action.
- Sysop — only Full Administrators, Community Administrators, & Code Administrators can perform a given action.
- Change protected actions:
- Move — restricts who can rename a page.
- Edit — restricts who may edit a page.
- Create — restricts who may create a page.
- Change protection duration.
- Change protection levels:
- Delete pages.
- Restore pages that have been deleted, or specific revisions thereof.
- Rename pages in addition to their subpages.
- Suppress Redirect (move a page without leaving a redirect).
- Use the Rollback tool to undo vandalism.
File Management[]
- Move files.
- Protect files against users uploading.
User management[]
- Block other users.
- Unblock other users.
- Unblock themselves.
- Change block settings, such as to extend or shorten blocks.
- Grant & revoke the following groups to users:
- Content Moderator
- Discussions Moderator
- Remove themselves from the Administrator user-group at any time.
Discussions moderation[]
- Rename Categories.
- Create Categories.
- Merge Categories together.
- Approve reported posts.
- Move posts to another Category.
- Edit posts.
- Lock posts to prevent replies.
- Unlock posts.
- Delete posts.
- Restore posts.
- Edit replies.
- Delete replies.
- Restore replies.
Forum moderation[]
- Edit archived Wiki-style Forums.
- Delete threads so that only Administrators may view or restore them.
- Move threads to another board.
- Edit threads.
- Remove threads so that they are only visible via direct link.
- Restore threads.
- Close threads to prevent replies.
- Reopen closed threads.
- Edit thread replies
- Remove thread replies.
- Restore thread replies.
- Create boards.
- Remove boards.
- Edit board descriptions.
Message Wall moderation[]
- Delete threads so that only Administrators may view or restore them.
- Edit threads.
- Remove threads.
- Restore threads.
- Close threads to prevent replies.
- Reopen closed threads.
- Edit thread replies
- Remove thread replies.
- Restore thread replies.
Blogs moderation[]
- Move blogs.
- Edit other people’s blogs.
- Delete blogs.
- Disable or enable comments on other people’s blogs.
Article & Blog Comment moderation[]
- Move comments.
- Edit comments
- Delete comments.
- Restore comments.
- ↑ Contains statistics, a panel full of very basic moderation tools, & an advanced panel full of roughly 100 Special Pages used for moderation, analytics reports, & cleanup.
- ↑ Allows for easy changing of a Wiki’s aesthetics.
- ↑ Views a list of a given user’s deleted contributions which would be invisible otherwise.
- ↑ Allows pages from other MediaWiki projects to be imported as pages here, including their file histories.
- ↑ This allows almost total control over how the Wiki looks aesthetically, via CSS, in addition to how it functions, via JavaScript & general settings.