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 Administrators' noticeboard.
There are currently 181 administrators on Commons.
What is an administrator?
Administrators as of February 2025 Listing by: Language • Date • Activity [+/−] |
Number of Admins: 181
If 181 is not the last number on this list, there may be an error or there are some users assigned temporarily. |
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 less-restricted interface messages (see also Commons:Interface administrators)
- rename files
- add and remove user groups
- configure Upload Wizard campaigns
- delete and undelete specific log entries and revisions of pages
- import pages from other wikis
- merge the history of pages
- modify abuse filters
- not create redirects from source pages when moving pages
- override the spoofing checks and title or username blacklist
- send a message to multiple users at once (massmessage)
- use higher limits in API queries
These are collectively known as the admin tools.
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. Some admins may become more influential, not due to their position as such, but from the personal trust they may have gained from the community.
Suggestions for administrators
Please read Commons:Guide to adminship.
Removal of administrator rights
Under the de-admin policy, administrator rights may be revoked due to inactivity or misuse of sysop tools. In a de-admin request, normal standards for determining consensus in an RfA do not apply. Instead, "majority consensus" should be used, whereby any consensus to demote of higher than 50% is sufficient to remove the admin.
Apply to become an administrator
All intending administrators must go through this process and submit themselves to RFA, including all ex-administrators who are seeking to return to their previous role.
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 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. Request a watchlist notice at MediaWiki talk:WatchlistNotice, or edit MediaWiki:WatchlistNotice to put up one if you are an administrator.
- 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.
Use the box below, replacing Username with your username: |
Voting
Any registered user may vote here although those who have few or no previous edits may not be fully counted. It is preferable you give reasons for both Support and Oppose votes as this will help the closing bureaucrat in their decision. Greater weight is given to an 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. Bureaucrats may, at their discretion, extend the period of an RfA if they feel that it will be helpful in better determining community consensus.
Neutral comments are not counted in the vote totals for the purposes of calculating pass/fail percentages. However, such comments are part of the discussion, may persuade others, and contribute to the closing bureaucrat's understanding of community consensus.
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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.
Gnom (talk · contributions (views) · deleted user contributions · recent activity (talk · project · deletion requests) · logs · block log · global contribs · CentralAuth)
Scheduled to end: 19:28, 20 February 2025 (UTC)
Hello again – after narrowly missing the threshold in my last request for adminship in November 2023 (with 74% approval), I thought I could ask again, now that more than a year has passed and the community has had the opportunity to see some more activity from me in the areas where I would most like to be active as an admin, which is copyright-related deletion requests.
In January, some of you maybe read my blog post for Public Domain Day 2025, which discussed the tricky copyright situation around artworks by the two famous painters Frida Kahlo and Henri Matisse. Another recent project of mine that I am very excited about, albeit still in an early stage (and not admin-related), is the upload of over 2,000 recordings of organ music.
Seeing the many unsuccessful requests for Commons adminship over the last months, I must confess that I am publishing this request somewhat anxiously – but I sincerely think that I could be of help to the community with my experience as a copyright lawyer and long-time community member, and a few of the people who did not support my last request have already indicated that they would do so this time.
You can find more information about me on my user page as well as in my last request for adminship. Happy to also answer any questions you may have.
Votes
Support per nom and the answers in the previous nom. — 🇺🇦Jeff G. ツ please ping or talk to me🇺🇦 19:44, 13 February 2025 (UTC)
Support Queen of Hearts (talk) 20:11, 13 February 2025 (UTC)
Support per Jeff G. We can use the help. --MB-one (talk) 20:45, 13 February 2025 (UTC)
Support It's hard to find a more trusted user for the things we do and need here. --Mirer (talk) 20:46, 13 February 2025 (UTC)
- I can not laugh about it anymore. -- Marcus Cyron (talk) 21:06, 13 February 2025 (UTC)
- can you please explain? @Marcus Cyron modern_primat ඞඞඞ ----TALK 21:45, 13 February 2025 (UTC)
- @Marcus Cyron, it is inappropriate to express derision without offering an argument, and is a violation of the Universal Code of Conduct. Whatever your personal feelings or experience with Gnom, please stick to arguments relevant for his potential contribution as a Commons admin. Ijon (talk) 01:09, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
- I don't find Marcus's comment here, nor his oppose in the previous request ("I learned the hard way that Gnom doesn't care about right and wrong when it fits the agenda.") particularly useful - it's not possible for other people to decide for themselves whether a concern is valid if Marcus doesn't actually share the specifics with the rest of us - but I also don't find you throwing the Universal Code of Conduct around particularly constructive either. It feels like a needless escalation. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 05:55, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
- I can not laugh about it anymore. -- Marcus Cyron (talk) 21:06, 13 February 2025 (UTC)
very weak support - man... you have low activity here. i just look over previous discussions about adminship. and since you are lawyer on copyright and you are old editor im ok. but please, do more work here. thank you for apply. modern_primat ඞඞඞ ----TALK 21:45, 13 February 2025 (UTC)
Support I supported last time and they would be a good admin due to experience. I also appreciate this user's work with WikiOrchestra. Abzeronow (talk) 23:02, 13 February 2025 (UTC)
Support per nom. I have no concerns about level of activity; every bit of work Gnom can do would be helpful and 100% good-faith. Ijon (talk) 01:04, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
Support per QOH and Jeff G. I would appreciate an uptick in activity, but we shouldn't expect every admin to be doing 100+ actions a day. All the Best -- Chuck Talk 03:22, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
Oppose with regret. As in the last RfA, valuable work is shown in the application, but none of it is admin related, and it's not pointed out what the tools should be used for. The user with no doubt is an expert on copyright, but an expert is by far more useful giving advice and commenting on deletion requests than having the mop themselves and then not using it. --Krd 08:04, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
Support I was one who opposed you last time out of the concern of a low edit count. But today I see it differently. Even if your edit count is low, those are good edits (at least in my experience). Don't really find a reason to oppose anymore.Paradise Chronicle (talk) 08:18, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
Support such a great and fitting candidate! --Rogi (talk) 08:23, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
Support I think I can keep my promise. --A1Cafel (talk) 09:49, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
Support Last time I did not vote, because you were sysop in test wiki, but you had only 1 edit there. I see, that you still have only 1 edit in test wiki, but you are not a sysop there, actually you are not sysop anywhere, and for this improvement I support you. Taivo (talk) 14:50, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
Support --Mateus2019 (talk) 16:24, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
Support No issue as far as I can tell. --Yann (talk) 17:39, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
Comments
- On your Mastodon account linked from your userpage, looking at it I get the impression that not all photos are properly attributed? --A.Savin 04:40, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
- Oh, you're probably right, I should be more consistent with the attributions on social media. I'll go fix that right now. As you can see here, I am able to do it in principle :-) Gnom (talk) 07:05, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
- Since your nomination does not talk much about the admin areas your intent to work in, could you please specify the areas you plan to focus on? --Ratekreel (talk) 16:46, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
- Hello @Ratekreel, my plan is to focus my admin activity on copyright-related deletion requests. Or was your question about something else? Gnom (talk) 21:16, 14 February 2025 (UTC)
Requests for bureaucratship
When complete, pages listed here should be archived to Commons:Bureaucrats/Archive.
- Please read Commons:Bureaucrats 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.
No current requests.
Requests for CheckUser rights
When complete, pages listed here should be archived to Commons:Checkusers/Archive.
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No current requests.
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.
No current requests.