Team Four Star Wiki:Administrators

An administrator, or sysop (system operator), is a user who has been appointed with extra editing powers for maintenance-based tasks. Another way to think of an administrator is as a janitor, as they help keep the wiki a clean and better place by deleting/restoring pages, protecting pages, blocking users/IP editors, editing MediaWiki pages, viewing deleted archives and closing community discussions. Bureaucrats also have the ability to give other users rollback, administrative, or bureaucratic rights, the latter two after a community consensus.

Administrators still have to abide by wiki policies, and their input in discussions do not carry any extra weight on the account of being one. If an administrator abuses or misuses his/her rights, they can be removed after a community discussion or immediately by a bureaucrat, depending on the situation.

To see a full list of what an administrator can do, see this list.

Additional Abilities

 * Delete pages, page histories, files etc
 * Rename files (these are mainly images and videos).
 * Lock/protect a page so it cannot be edited or renamed by users without administrator rights.
 * Block an IP address or user name from editing.
 * Revert bad edits more easily using a "rollback" link.
 * Edit the MediaWiki namespace to make changes to the interface.
 * Kick a user out of chat as a warning.
 * Block a user from joining the chat.
 * Grant users Chat Moderator rights.
 * Grant users rollback, administrator, and bureaucrat rights.***
 * *** Only bureaucrats can grant these user rights.

Highlights

 * Check Users - cyan (checkuser)
 * Bureaucrats - purple (bureaucrat)
 * Administrators - gold (sysop)
 * Chat Moderators - blue (chatmoderator)
 * Rollback - green (rollback)
 * Helpers - lime (helper)
 * VSTF - orange (vstf)
 * Staff - pink (staff)
 * Bots - silver (bot)