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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 265 administrators on Commons.
[edit] What is an administrator?
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Number of Admins: 265
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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 an 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 an 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 remain open for at least seven days, for votes and comments, unless withdrawn early as unsuccessful. 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 8 support votes. Votes from unregistered users are not numerically counted, although such users may still offer their opinions on the candidate. 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 8 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.
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[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] Techman224
Techman224 (talk · contributions · deleted user contributions · recent activity · logs · block log · global contribs · SULinfo)
- Scheduled to end: 18:58, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
Hello, I am here to nomination myself for adminship on Wikimedia Commons. I have been here since September 2008 and have been active through 2009, and more active in 2010, and currently 2012, having 3,100+ contributions and over 400 log entries. I am a rollbacker, file mover, patroller, and license reviewer. My main activities here include license reviewing and file moving, plus tagging images as copyright violations as I come across them. When there is nothing to do in those areas, I also help with vandalism and patrolling edits, and other maintenance that I can think of. I frequent the IRC #cvn-commons and #wikimedia-commons channels and look at recent changes. I also participate in Deletion requests where I offer my opinion if a file should be kept or deleted. When I make a mistake, I undo what I did and try to make things right. I hope that the community sees me as a net benefit to the project. Thanks. Techman224Talk 18:58, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
[edit] Votes
Support Very active user MorganKevinJ(talk) 19:14, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
Support A good candidate --Sreejith K (talk) 05:30, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
Support - Yes, please --Katarighe (Talk) 16:17, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
Support No reason why not. Good luck in advance! Trijnstel (talk) 17:32, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
Support I see he has been active in counter-vandalism and licence review, thus I think the project needs a person like him. -- Blackcat (talk) 17:47, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
Support. I might not be such an established editor, but I was surprised to learn that Techman224 wasn't already an admin. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 22:24, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
Support Why not? -FASTILY (TALK) 00:27, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
Support. Good experience locally and globally. A net positive to the project. Rehman 02:00, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
Support I'm happy to support this nomination. You are well-intentioned and trustworthy. As per my questions below, you're great at AGF, and if anything I'd encourage you to be more cynical(!) about drive-by uploaders and meaningless filenames. The areas you've indicated you will be involved with require a fair bit of practice spotting and analysing copyvios. Learn to analyse whole users, as well as just individual images. You're on your way at this, but for the moment I'd suggest sending anything you're unsure about to DR rather than speedy-deleting. --99of9 (talk) 04:52, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
Support Will be a good admin--Morning Sunshine (talk) 05:08, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
Support. Good! --►Safir yüzüklü Ceklimesaj 10:16, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
Support - Tiptoety talk 02:12, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
Support -- RE rillke questions? 22:10, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
[edit] Comments
- Question You recently moved File:241380 2102188955135 1257798972 32555123 4215981 r.jpg to File:Conciertos en México DF Banda Tatto Falconi.jpg with the reason more meaningful name. Please can you comment on how likely this is to be a copyvio? --99of9 (talk) 22:44, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- Unlikely from my view. Google Images comes out with nothing, plus this user has uploaded other concert photos, one of which has EXIF data from a camera, File:Conciertos en Vivo Banda Tatto Falconi.jpg, so I think the user actually created this picture. Techman224Talk 01:05, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
- You may not be aware, but that filename format (particular strings of digits) means that the photograph was downloaded from Facebook. Indeed you can even tell that it was uploaded to Facebook by this Facebook account (as were a couple of others uploaded by this user). Does that change your answer? How about the fact that on the same day, the user uploaded many obvious copyvios like this, that demonstrate a lack of understanding of the meaning of an own work claim? And how about the fact that nearly all their uploads have black strips on the left and right or top and bottom, suggesting that they are screen captures of media that did not have the same aspect ratio as their screen? -- 99of9 (talk) 02:07, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
- It appears the photo is private, as I tried to get to it through the profile page but couldn't find it. This photo seems to be different from the others in that it doesn't have borders. This would make me suspicious. Techman224Talk 04:18, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
- Comment Oh, and about the one file with exif you cite as supporting legitimacy... It was originally uploaded on the 4th of Feb as File:9a607ce28b280f12edc1218fe169ca4f0227dd7a990fc856edc9faa6241f5e6d6g.jpg, but it had already been on the web. Although now disabled, this site used the same filename for that picture (and had it at the same resolution). I've tagged it for deletion. --99of9 (talk) 02:40, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
- I would support deletion in this case, if he can't prove the photo is his. Techman224Talk 04:22, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
- You may not be aware, but that filename format (particular strings of digits) means that the photograph was downloaded from Facebook. Indeed you can even tell that it was uploaded to Facebook by this Facebook account (as were a couple of others uploaded by this user). Does that change your answer? How about the fact that on the same day, the user uploaded many obvious copyvios like this, that demonstrate a lack of understanding of the meaning of an own work claim? And how about the fact that nearly all their uploads have black strips on the left and right or top and bottom, suggesting that they are screen captures of media that did not have the same aspect ratio as their screen? -- 99of9 (talk) 02:07, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
- Question You removed the border from File:Afrikanischersekretaer-05.jpg. Please can you comment on how likely this is to be a copyvio? --99of9 (talk) 22:55, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- I saw that there was a link to a page that gave permission, de:Benutzer:Jonathan Hornung/Tiermotive/Genehmigung, but it appears to have been deleted in December 2011. I would like more information about it. The site also says that photos can only be used for private use, however, if this user is really the admin and created the picture and gave permission, then he can license it whatever he wants. I would still would want to check out that page with the help of the user or dewiki administrator before I jump to conclusions. Perhaps someone who can speak German. Techman224Talk 23:48, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- Question You transferred File:Devin_Oatway_with_Guitar.jpeg from en-wiki. Please could you take a look at the original uploader's user & talk pages, and comment on whether you think it is appropriate for us to host on Commons. --99of9 (talk) 23:03, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
- Looks like a personal picture of him, and by looking at the original uploader's talk page on enwiki, he uploaded a couple of them. If I was a license reviewer back then, I would probably tagged it with {{npd}}, in fact it should be tagged right now. Techman224Talk 00:11, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
- Yes, unfortunately I agree with you on this. It looks like a good faith upload by the subject himself "I, Devin Oatway, created this work entirely by myself.", but alas we need some kind of verification. What seriously concerned me about the upload account was the statement on the userpage "Gudavagling is a collection of people, all who have an interest in art, literature and popular culture, and reside in the United States." It looks like a shared account to me, but that is Wikipedia's problem for now. --99of9 (talk) 02:53, 20 February 2012 (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.