Commons:Administrators
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This page explains the role of administrators (sometimes called admins or sysops) on Wikimedia Commons. Note that details of the role, and the way in which administrators are appointed, may differ from other sites.
If you want to request administrator help, please post at Commons:Administrators' noticeboard.
There are currently 270 administrators on Commons.
[edit] What is an administrator?
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Number of Admins: 270
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[edit] Technical
Administrators are users with the technical ability on Wikimedia Commons to:
- delete and undelete images and other uploaded files, and to view and restore deleted versions
- delete and undelete pages, and to view and restore deleted revisions
- protect and unprotect pages, and to edit admin-protected pages
- block and unblock users, individual IP addresses and IP address ranges
- edit the MediaWiki namespace
- rename files
These are collectively known as the admin tools.
[edit] Community role
Administrators are experienced and trusted members of the Commons community who have taken on additional maintenance work and have been entrusted with the admin tools by public consensus/vote. Different admins have different areas of interest and expertise, but typical admin tasks include determining and closing deletion requests, deleting copyright violations, undeleting files where necessary, protecting Commons against vandalism, and working on templates and other protected pages. Of course, some of these tasks can be done by non-admins as well.
Administrators are expected to understand the goals of this project, and be prepared to work constructively with others towards those ends. Administrators should also understand and follow Commons' policies, and where appropriate respect community consensus.
Apart from roles which require use of the admin tools, administrators have no special editorial authority by virtue of their position, and in discussions and public votes their contributions are treated in the same way as any ordinary editor. Of course, some admins are influential, but that derives not from their position as such but from the personal trust they have gained from the community.
[edit] How do I become an administrator?
First, consider whether becoming an administrator is the best way for you to contribute to the project. Experience shows that outstanding contributors of content often reduce their contributions because of the maintenance overhead after they become admins, and this is what we want least. So please contribute your best skills and understand that there are many ways of getting community credit besides being an admin. Admin status on Commons is not an honour for outstanding content contributors, but just provides an additional set of tools for people who show that they want to clean up.
Consider whether you actually need the admin tools for the work you would like to do. The community does not hand out the tools to those who do not need or who are not likely to make use of them. So, if you need the tools only for a limited period, or in order to clean up your own contributions, please simply ask an existing admin to help you out.
Admins are expected to remain reasonably active here, and if after appointment you cease to use the tools for an extended period you will automatically lose them under our de-admin policy. You should expect as a admin to make yourself available on Commons to a reasonable extent (a userpage that asks people to leave messages for you on some other project is not considered acceptable practice for an admin).
More information about the administrators' community roles can be found at Commons:Guide to adminship.
We do not have any hard and fast rules setting out the minimum period you should have been active on Commons in order to apply for adminship, nor any minimum number of edits. However, the requirement that you be a experienced and trusted member of the Commons community typically means that prior to applying you should have had sufficient breadth and depth of experience here to be able to demonstrate that. If you are an admin or an experienced user on another project, by all means mention that, but bear in mind that off-Commons experience is on its own not normally enough.
Although not mandatory, it is often a good idea to talk to existing admins to get feedback about your experience and approach. You may be able to get another admin to nominate you, although self-nominations are also allowed.
When you request adminship, the community will consider your ability to fill the admin role. Individual Commons contributors may have varying expectations of candidates, and you may wish to review some archived applications to get a sense of what people are looking for. As a practical matter, users often want to see a reasonable level of involvement in admin-type activities such as deletion requests, accurately tagging images as copyright violations, new user patrolling, and so on. Users often want to be satisfied that you are an integral member of the Commons community and will look at the way you interact with others, on user talk pages and elsewhere.
[edit] The public discussion and vote
Adminship nominations usually remain open for seven days, for votes and comments. The period starts when you posted your nomination (if a self-nom) or when you posted your acceptance (if somebody else nominated you). At the end of that period the nomination will be closed by a bureaucrat who will either grant or decline promotion. The nomination may be left open for more than seven days, or a longer period specified, should a bureaucrat consider that desirable.
As a guideline, promotion normally requires at least 75% in favour, with a minimum of 4 support votes. Votes from unregistered users are not counted. However, the closing bureaucrat has discretion in judging community consensus, and the decision will not necessarily be based on the raw numbers. Among other things, the closing bureaucrat may take into account the strength of any arguments presented and the experience and knowledge of the commenting users. For example, the comments and votes of users who have zero or few contributions on Commons may at the bureaucrat's discretion be discounted.
If the nomination is successful, the closing bureaucrat will grant the applicant admin rights.
[edit] The request for adminship
When you are ready, make sure you have a userpage, enable email in your preferences, then apply, or ask your nominator to apply, back on the main Commons:Administrators page.
[edit] Suggestions for administrators
Please read Commons:Guide to adminship.
[edit] Removal of administrator rights
Under the de-admin policy, administrator rights may be revoked due to inactivity or misuse of sysop tools.
[edit] How do I become an administrator?
First, go to Commons:Administrators/Howto and read the information there. Then come back here and make your request in the section below.
- After clicking on the appropriate button and creating the subpage, copy the link to the subpage, e.g. "Commons:Administrators/Requests/Username", edit Commons:Administrators/Requests and paste it in at the top of the section, then put it in double curly brackets (e.g. {{Commons:Administrators/Requests/Username}} ) to transclude it.
- If someone else nominated you, please accept the nomination by stating "I accept" or something similar, and signing below the nomination itself. The subpage will still need to be transcluded by you or your nominator.
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[edit] Voting
Any registered user may vote here although those who have few or no previous edits may not be fully counted. It is preferable if you give reasons both for
Support votes or
Oppose ones as this will help the closing bureaucrat in their decision. Greater weight is given to argument, with supporting evidence if needed, than to a simple vote.
Promotion normally requires at least 75% in favour, with a minimum of 4 support votes. Votes from unregistered users are not counted. However, the closing bureaucrat has discretion in judging community consensus, and the decision will not necessarily be based on the raw numbers.
Purge the cache Use the edit link below to edit the transcluded page.
[edit] Requests for adminship
When complete, pages listed here should be archived to Commons:Administrators/Archive.
- Please read Commons:Administrators before voting here. Any logged in user may vote, although those who have few or no previous edits may not be fully counted.
[edit] Melos
Very trusted user, here as well as on it.wiki, where is a valid Check User. He has a "temporary flag" because he conducted an important work about italian CoA (you can see also last request for adminship); now this work is successfully done, but I request for him a stable flag, because he can surely be a very good referring point here and a valid, neutral and experienced admin. --Roberto Segnali all'Indiano 19:06, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Links for candidate: Melos (talk · contributions · deleted user contributions · logs · block log)
[edit] Votes
[edit] Support
Support --Roberto Segnali all'Indiano 19:44, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
WTF? I forgot that he was a temp admin. Support without a doubt, I know Melos now for a year, maybe a little bit more and he is always nice and willing to help. There is nothing where I could think of that could make me oppose on this request, this kind of people do we need much more on Commons. Huib talk 19:49, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Support--Henrykus (talk) 19:54, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Support--Marco 27 (msg) on it.wiki: user page — talk page 19:57, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Support --gian_d (talk) 20:03, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Support -- Marco Bernardini (talk) 20:21, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Support --Vituzzu (talk) 21:34, 22 November 2009 (UTC)- No reason to believe they're not trustworthy.
Support –Juliancolton | Talk 22:06, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Support -- Sannita - not just another it.wiki sysop 22:06, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Support --Wim β 23:10, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Support I trust him. --Jaqen (talk) 23:43, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Support --Tia solzago (talk) 11:29, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
Support --Skyluke ★ | @it.wk 11:34, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
Support No doubt --Fabexplosive (talk) 12:25, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
Support. Highly trusted. PeterSymonds (talk) 16:40, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
Support reliable. --Superchilum(talk to me!) 18:17, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
Support he is confident with both the technical matters and the copyright law. He's reliable and trust-worthy. --Austroungarika write here! 19:17, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
Support very good cu and admin at it.wiki --FiloSottile (talk) 23:57, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
Support per Melos's answer, and strong trust from the community that knows him best. Durova (talk) 01:57, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Oppose
Oppose Melos did 141 edit in almost 2 years [1] There is no confidence that user understand copyright laws in different countries, no participation in DRs, speedy deletion, and copyvio-cleanup or others community based activities. And there is almost zero history of communication with other users on Commons --Justass (talk) 20:11, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Oppose I have to agree. It's not clear if this user knows the Commons policies, processes and conventions. Furthermore, I find it very questionable that the user misused his tools for stuff that wasn't supported by consensus. Honesty is important: If you say you only use it to restore those images but do other things as well, how can I trust you then? --The Evil IP address (talk) 21:17, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Oppose Less than 150 edits since 30 January 2008 is not sufficient for an admin. --High Contrast (talk) 22:08, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Oppose get more active, come back here. Multichill (talk) 22:13, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Oppose - KTo288 (talk) 23:25, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Neutral
Neutral --Leyo 08:45, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Comments
Comment He doesn't seem to be limiting the use of his temporary access (Commons:Administrators/Requests/Melos) to the tasks it was granted for. -- User:Docu at 19:15, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
- That could be my fault, I asked Melos a few times if he could help out when there where requests on IRC and I didn't have a secure connection, Its my mistake that I forgot to check if he could use the buttons. But with his use of the tools he shows us that he know the policies because everything he did was according to our policy. Huib talk 19:52, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
- Curious about the concerns articulated by Justass. Durova (talk) 20:30, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Comment I'd like to ask Justass about the number of admin who knows italian copyright law, some month ago (if needed I'll take a link to the village pump's archives) I noticed that only a few number of sysop, almost nobody was able to deal with italian "decreto Urbani" (a really important matter for all photos taken into italian museums). --Vituzzu (talk) 21:37, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Comment And I'd just like to ask to all about the number of edit; do you really think that high number of edit means knowledge of policies, experiences about copyright, technical knowledges? And more, do you really think that experiences is only through number of edits made on Commons? I know here edicountitis reaches the top, so I see here admins having no full knowledges about copyright, I saw it many time. Moreover, Melos did a work that don't figure in any log here: searching thousand of deleted files, saving on his desktop and reuploading on it.wiki. The work is the same than restoring files here; the greatest part of the work was done here, and we should (we must?) consider all this deleted files viewed by him as edit done here. --Roberto Segnali all'Indiano 08:32, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
- Roberto, this is a difficult decision from the perspective of someone who doesn't already know him. Several Italian editors have a lot of trust and respect for this person. Probably that's well earned. Yet he's averaging about 6 edits a month to this site over two years. Definitely there's value in diversity and in having Italian administrators. If Melos had come and done a couple hundred edits over six weeks, and not run into any problems, then he would definitely have my support. Right now I don't know what to think. It would be really helpful if he came to this discussion himself and addressed the concerns. Durova (talk) 22:13, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
- I really believe in this RfA. I've accepted this because I can give a hand to the project. Until now I have always limited to report speedy deletion or other to different admin via IRC (Filnik and others can confirm) and this is the real reason why i have only 157 edits. I'm an admin on itwiki since 2008 and OTRS volunteer since the same year and for this reason I know the different copyright laws. --melos (talk) 23:42, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
- Roberto, this is a difficult decision from the perspective of someone who doesn't already know him. Several Italian editors have a lot of trust and respect for this person. Probably that's well earned. Yet he's averaging about 6 edits a month to this site over two years. Definitely there's value in diversity and in having Italian administrators. If Melos had come and done a couple hundred edits over six weeks, and not run into any problems, then he would definitely have my support. Right now I don't know what to think. It would be really helpful if he came to this discussion himself and addressed the concerns. Durova (talk) 22:13, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Jmabel
Links: Jmabel (talk · contributions · deleted user contributions · logs · block log)
- Scheduled to end 22:30, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
Jmabel is among the most active and valuable participants to Commons, and I was a bit surprised to find he wasn't and admin already. In my experience Jmabel is sensible and helpful. He is already an admin at en:W. -- Infrogmation (talk) 19:51, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks
Assuming this goes through, I accept. - Jmabel ! talk 22:30, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Votes
Support as a nominator. -- Infrogmation (talk) 19:59, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
Support -- User:Docu at 20:11, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
Support - "Always thought he was one!" –Juliancolton | Talk 20:16, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
Support More than time --Foroa (talk) 21:52, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
Support. That's an easy one. –Tryphon☂ 08:06, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
Support--KTo288 (talk) 10:12, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
Support Kwj2772 (msg) 15:52, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
Support: --The Evil IP address (talk) 21:45, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
Support Why not? -FASTILY (TALK) 02:24, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
Support trusted user. Durova (talk) 02:43, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
Support --Mbdortmund (talk) 16:05, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
Support --EugeneZelenko (talk) 15:34, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
Support - NVO (talk) 18:37, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
Support, no reason not to. –blurpeace (talk) 18:07, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Support, great user. --Aqwis (talk) 20:21, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Support Jacopo Werther (talk) 22:20, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
Support - Túrelio (talk) 13:46, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
Support. feydey (talk) 15:31, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Comments
- Please add Commons:Babel on your user page. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 15:37, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Requests for bureaucratship
When complete, pages listed here should be archived to Commons:Bureaucrats/Archive.
- Please read Commons:Bureaucrats before voting here. Any logged in user may vote, although those who have few or no previous edits may not be fully counted.
[edit] Requests for CheckUser
When complete, pages listed here should be archived to Commons:Checkusers/Archive.
- Please read Commons:Checkusers before posting or voting here. Any logged in user may vote although those who have few or no previous edits may not be fully counted.
[edit] Requests for Oversight rights
When complete, pages listed here should be archived to Commons:Oversighters/Archive.
- Please read Commons:Oversighters before voting here. Any logged in user may vote, although those who have few or no previous edits may not be fully counted.
[edit] Archives
You can find requests for adminship archives at Commons:Administrators/Archive.