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Administrators are Wikipedians who have sysop rights. Current Wikipedia policy is to grant this access liberally to anyone who has been an active Wikipedia contributor for a while and is generally a known and trusted member of the community. "This should be no big deal," as Jimbo recently said.

What's the big deal?

The Wiki software has a few restricted features. For example, editing the front page or other protected pages, permanently deleting pages and their history, performing direct Database queries, and banning IP addresses all require "administrator" or "sysop" access. Users with ordinary access, including first-time visitors who haven't "signed in", can still do most things like editing pages and uploading files.

Becoming an administrator

If you would like sysop access, send an e-mail to the English Wikipedia mailing list (WikiEN-L) giving your Wikipedia login name and requesting access.

Be careful, please

If you are granted access, we ask that you exercise care in using these functions, especially the ability to delete pages and their history (see Wikipedia policy on permanent deletion of pages) and the ability to block IP addresses.

The other degree of access is "developer", for those who can make direct changes to the Wikipedia software and database. Check out Wikitech-L and Wikipedia:Developers.

Administrators are marked with "(sysop)" in the list of user accounts. If you need to contact an administrator, visit one or several of the userpages below. Administrators who have not listed their email addresses can still be contacted by using the "email this user" link on the page.

List of administrators

The following 51 users have sysop rights as of March 10, 2003. Four of these (in bold italics) also have developer rights.

Former Administrators

The following users have voluntarily given up their sysop rights, for various reasons (not a complete list :-)

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