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Administrators, commonly known as admins or sysops (system operators), are users who have been granted the technical ability to perform certain special actions on this wiki. They have the ability to block and unblock user accounts and IP addresses from editing, edit fully protected pages, protect and unprotect pages from editing, delete and undelete pages, rename pages without restriction, and use certain other tools.


An Administrator has been authorized to perform the following function because of their associated user access rights. As they are the wiki's administrators, they have all the rights over this wiki.
    • Block a user from sending e-mail (blockemail)
    • Block other users from editing (block)
    • Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks (ipblock-exempt)
    • Bypass automatic blocks of proxies (proxyunbannable)
    • Change protection levels and edit protected pages (protect)
    • Create new user accounts (createaccount)
    • Delete pages (delete)
    • Delete pages with large histories (bigdelete)
    • Edit other users' CSS and JS files (editusercssjs)
    • Edit semi-protected pages (autoconfirmed)
    • Edit the user interface (editinterface)
    • Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
    • Import pages from a file upload (importupload)
    • Import pages from other wikis (import)
    • Mark others' edits as patrolled (patrol)
    • Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits (markbotedits)
    • Move files (movefile)
    • Move pages (move)
    • Move pages with their subpages (move-subpages)
    • Move root user pages (move-rootuserpages)
    • Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)
    • Override files on the shared media repository locally (reupload-shared)
    • Overwrite existing files (reupload)
    • Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page (rollback)
    • Read pages (read)
    • Search deleted pages (browsearchive)
    • Submit a trackback (trackback)
    • Undelete a page (undelete)
    • Upload files (upload)
    • Upload files from a URL (upload_by_url)
    • Use higher limits in API queries (apihighlimits)
    • View a list of unwatched pages (unwatchedpages)
    • View deleted history entries, without their associated text (deletedhistory)
    • skipcaptcha (skipcaptcha)