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| '''Administrators''' (commonly known as '''sysops''' or '''admins''') on the [[AoPSWiki:About|AoPSWiki]] have certain powers which are not granted to ordinary users. | | '''Administrators''' (commonly known as '''sysops''' or '''admins''') on the [[AoPSWiki:About|AoPSWiki]] have certain powers which are not granted to ordinary users. |
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− | Administrators have easy one-click rollback abilities to revert the previous user's moves; however, the rollback ability is generally only used to revert vandalism. If the revert is of a legitimate edit, then no useful edit summary is left and the revert may be seen as abusage of admin powers.
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− | They have the power to permanently delete articles beyond the average user's ability to restore, though administrators can restore these deleted articles. As a direct result, they can also move articles to the location of other already-existing articles by simply deleting the other one.
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− | Administrators have access to [[Special:Unwatchedpages]], a list containing all of the articles on the wiki which aren't being watched by users. This is to minimize the amount of damage that can be potentially done by a vandal. Sysops also have access to certain other special pages.
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− | There is also a protection ability in which articles subject to vandalism or other disputes can be locked from editing. Articles can be semi-protected, which bans new users from editing that article. They can also be fully-protected, which then only lets other sysops to edit. There are similar protection abilities against page moves to prevent page-move vandalism.
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− | Administrators also can block (prevent from editing all of the wiki except their own user page and user talk page) or ban (prevent from logging in) any user.
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Revision as of 14:39, 16 February 2016
Administrators (commonly known as sysops or admins) on the AoPSWiki have certain powers which are not granted to ordinary users.
Bureaucrats
A bureaucrat is a special type of administrator with the ability to make users into sysops and other bureaucrats. Mostly only forum administrators are bureaucrats on the AoPSWiki.
Bureaucrats have access to Special:Userrights, where they edit user permissions.
List of sysops
- Rrusczyk
- DPatrick
- btilm305
- IntrepidMath
- JBL
- Solafidefarms
- azjps
- Minsoens