RuneScape:Administrators

See also - Requests for adminship Administrators, or sysops, are editors who have access to technical features that help with maintenance. Those include protecting and deleting pages, blocking other editors, and undoing these actions as well. RuneScape Wiki's practice is to grant this access to anyone who has been an active and regular RuneScape Wiki contributor for a while, is familiar with and respects RuneScape Wiki policy, and is generally a known and trusted member of the community.

Any user can behave as if they are an administrator (provided they do not falsely claim to be one), even if they have not been given the extra administrative functions. Users doing so are more likely to be nominated as full administrators by members of the community and more likely to be chosen when they are finally nominated. From early on, it has been pointed out that administrators should never develop into a special subgroup of the community (See RuneScape:All editors are equal), but should be a part of the community like anyone else only equipped with a few more tools to do some chores that would potentially be harmful if everyone were entrusted with them.

The community does look to administrators to perform essential housekeeping chores that require the extra access administrators are entrusted with. Among them are watching the Votes for deletion debates and carrying out the consensus of the community on keeping or deleting these articles, keeping an eye on new and changed articles to swiftly delete obvious vandalism, and meeting user requests for help that require administrative access. Since administrators are expected to be experienced members of the community, users seeking help will often turn to an administrator for advice and information. In general, administrators acting in this role are neutral. They do not have any direct involvement in the issues they are helping people with.

What can administrators do?
The wiki software has a few important features that are restricted to only administrators and bureaucrats.
 * Edit the protected pages.
 * Protect and unprotect pages.
 * Delete pages, including images, and their history.
 * View and restore deleted pages, including images, and their history.
 * Block and unblock users, IP address, and IP ranges.
 * Revert pages quickly via the [rollback ] method.
 * Change the text and style of the interface by editing the pages in the MediaWiki namespace or MediaWiki:Monobook.css
 * Can view Special:Unwatchedpages to see pages which may be more vulnerable to vandalism.

Sounds fun! How do I become an admin?
If you have been around for a while, other users will notice your good work. If another user notices this work, they may nominate you and add your name to RuneScape:Requests for adminship. Discussion will then take place by fellow editors in order to determine if there is consensus that you should become an administrator.

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, to delete images, and the ability to block IP addresses. You can learn about your powers at the Wikipedia:Administrators' how-to guide. You should also take a look at the pages linked from the Wikipedia:Administrators' reading list before using any of your admin abilities.

Access types
Types of identified users, listed here in roughly ascending order of power, include:


 * IP addresses - Visitors who haven't "signed in" can still do most things, including editing articles.


 * Registered/Logged-in users can do everything IP addresses can do, but they can also upload files, move pages, and start new articles; see Special:Userlogin to sign yourself up!


 * Administrators - see Runescape:Administrators


 * Bureaucrats can turn other users into administrators or sysops and change usernames. Bureaucrats are created by other bureaucrats on projects where these exist, or by stewards on those who don't yet have one. Sysoppings are recorded in Special:Log/rights.

List of Administrators
An asterisk denotes a user with bureaucrat status.
 * 1) Merovingian* - inactive: last edit at 03:00, 16 April 2006
 * 2) X1011 - inactive: last edit at 13:24, 8 June 2006
 * 3) Oddlyoko* - inactive: last edit at 21:00, 10 December 2006
 * 4) Eucarya*
 * 5) Richard1990 - inactive: last edit at 20:09, 20 October 2006
 * 6) Hyenaste*
 * 7) Couchpotato99
 * 8) Huanghe63
 * 9) Vimescarrot*
 * 10) Avian Maid
 * 11) Dreadnought
 * 12) Megalodon99
 * 13) Whiplash
 * 14) Ilyas