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This page provides information on Meta administrators, and lays out relevant policies.

Administrators on Meta are users who have been granted the technical ability to perform certain special actions with local (protect and unprotect pages, delete and undelete pages, block and unblock users, and perform a variety of other tasks) and global (edit the title and spam blacklists , modify global abusefilters, send mass messages globally and more) effects.

Policy for requesting adminship

To request administrator access on Meta, you need to:

  • Demonstrate cross-wiki experience (e.g., be a participant of at least two months' duration on at least one project other than Meta and the "home" project).
  • Have a user page on Meta.
  • Have a valid contact address (either a confirmed email address in preferences, or a valid email address on the user page).
  • Be an active contributor on Meta (this is a subjective, not objective, measure; there is no official edit-count).
  • Preferably add {{#babel}} to your user page, given the multilingual nature of Meta.

Ill-considered nominations for adminship can be draining and deflating to both community and candidate. Any successful candidate will need to demonstrate sufficient experience within the Wikimedia community, in addition to a familiarity with Meta. If a candidate is not already a local administrator or holder of advanced permissions on a Wikimedia content project, they are less likely to pass a request for adminship at Meta.

The request is made at Requests for adminship, with at least one week allocated for the community to express opinions. The candidate will be named sysop here only if approved by at least 75% of participants. All active Meta-wiki editors may participate and give their opinion on the candidate. If your activity is outside Meta, but you have an opinion based on working with candidate in other Wikimedia projects, in support of or against the candidate, you are welcomed to submit it.

If the candidate becomes a sysop, they should add their name to the Administrator list, and ensure they keep a valid user name page, links to at least one other project, and valid contact. Administrators not respecting these rules will be desysoped.

See also: https://xtools.wmflabs.org/ec/meta.wikimedia.org

For current administrators: Template:AdminWelcome contains some handy links.

To become an administrator, make a request at Requests for adminship and meet the requirements listed there and above.

Regular administrators are allowed to subscribe to metawiki-admins, a private mailing list. Should you wish to subscribe, you'll find the instructions on the mailing list page.

Exceptions

It is helpful for some people to have access to protected pages on Meta (related to languages files). In such cases, two options are possible:

  • Temporary unprotection of these pages, so that the user can quietly work on them for a limited time.
  • Temporary sysoping of the user so they can edit the protected pages. In this case, the adminship shall be granted with no requirements and approval, but the user will promise to limit their activity to the necessity of their local project. Preferably, the admin status will be temporary.

Limited administrator status

Administrator status can be granted in a limited or restricted way. Limits can be set in time and/or in scope (for example, a user can be granted limited administrator status to perform technical work for an indefinite period of time, or to assist in a specific task for a set period of time, etc.). Unless requested and granted otherwise, limited adminship will have a duration of one month, after which rights will be removed. Limited administrators technically are given the same rights as regular administrators, but should avoid using their administrator tools for tasks they have not been authorized. Doing so could be grounds for immediate removal. Limited administrators can also be subject to a different activity requirement than regular administrators.

Policy for de-adminship

Inactivity

Any sysop inactive on Meta will be desysopped. "Inactivity" is normally defined as fewer than 10 logged actions in the past six months. Desysopping is formally undertaken at Meta:Administrators/Removal. Users who are desysopped may reapply through the regular avenue.

The next formal administrator review takes place on: April 1, 2024 (update)

Removal criteria
  1. Users who have made fewer than ten edits in the six months immediately before the removal date (April 1 or October 1) are desysopped without notice.
  2. Users who have made more than ten edits but fewer than ten actions requiring admin privileges in the same period are given a week to indicate they would like to retain their access. Users in this category are to be notified on the first day, and adminship is removed without notice on the seventh day if there is no response.

Exception
Newly elected administrators are exempt from the first evaluation date following their election. The evaluation criteria apply only to users who were administrators for the full six-month evaluation period.

Involved administrators

Administrators should avoid using their tools in situations where they may not be impartial. Those situations include using the tools in disputes in which they are involved parties. If the administrator is in doubt, the administrator is encouraged to ask for opinions, or to ask another administrator to take the case to Meta:Requests for help from a sysop or bureaucrat.

List of administrators

The following users have sysop rights on Meta. (See also auto-generated lists of administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, oversighters and stewards.)

  • Last updated: 2024-03-07 (edit)
User name Languages spoken Other rights
1234qwer1234qwer4 ru, de-4, en-2, la-1 global sysop
1997kB hi, en-3 global renamer, global rollbacker
Ajraddatz en, fr-2 checkuser, steward
Amire80 ru, en-4, he-4, ca-3, it-2, eo-2, es-2, la-1, lt-1, am-1, ar-1 CN admin, global sysop
Anthere fr, en-3
Base uk, ru-4, en-2 CN admin, interface admin, steward
Billinghurst en global rollbacker, global sysop, abuse filter maintainer (global)
Bsadowski1 en steward
CptViraj gu, hi-4, en-3 global renamer, global rollbacker, global sysop
Daimona Eaytoy it, en-3, fr-1, de-1 abuse filter maintainer (global)
Daniuu nl, en-4, fr-2, de-2 global rollbacker, global sysop, ombuds
DannyS712 en, he-2, es-2, zh-2 interface admin, global rollbacker, global sysop
DerHexer de, en-3, es-2, grc-2, la-2 CN admin, oversighter, steward
Elton pt, en-2, es-1 steward
Ferien en, de-3 global rollbacker
Hasley es, en-3, ca-2, it-1, pt-1, gl-1 checkuser, interface admin, steward
Herbythyme en, fr-2, es-1, it-1, la-1
Infinite0694 ja, en-3, de-3, fr-2, it-1 global rollbacker, global sysop
Johannnes89 de, en-4 CN admin, steward
Jusjih zh, en-3, fr-1, ko-1
Kaganer ru, en-1 CN admin, interface admin
Krd de, en-3
Lofty abyss en-4, it-2 global rollbacker
Lustiger seth de, en-3
M/ it, en-3, fr-2 bureaucrat, interface admin
MarcoAurelio es, en-2, fr-2 bureaucrat, interface administrator
Martin Urbanec cs, en-3 CN admin, interface admin, steward, sysadmin
Melos it, en-2, la-1 steward
MF-Warburg de, en-3, fr-1, tet-1, la-1 bureaucrat, global rollbacker, global sysop
Minorax en, zh, fr-1, ko-1, ms-1 checkuser, interface admin, global rollbacker, global sysop, ombuds
Mtarch11 it, en-1, fr-1, lij-2 global rollbacker, global sysop
MusikAnimal en, es-3 interface admin
Mykola7 uk, en-2, pl-1, de-1 steward
Operator873 en, es-2
Pharos en, fr-1 CN admin
Reedy en
Shizhao zh
Sotiale ko, en-2, ja-1, bi-1, tpi-1, eo-1 bureaucrat, checkuser, oversighter, steward
Steinsplitter de-4, en-2, it-2 CN admin, interface admin, global renamer
Stryn fi, en-2, sv-1 steward
Superpes15 it, en-2, fr-1, es-1, la-1 checkuser, steward
Syunsyunminmin ja, en-3 global rollbacker, global sysop
Tegel sv, en-3 steward
Teles pt, en-3, es-2 steward
TheresNoTime en, de-3 CN admin, sysadmin
TheSandDoctor en, fr-1 global renamer
Tulsi ne, mai, en-3, hi-2, bh-2, hif-2 CN admin, interface admin
Uncitoyen tr, en-2, fr-2 global renamer, global rollbacker, global sysop
Vermont en, ru-2, es-1 checkuser, CN admin, steward
Vituzzu it, scn, en-2, fr-2, la-1, es-1, pt-1 CN admin
WhitePhosphorus zh, en-3, ja-1, lzh-1, wuu-1, yue-1 global rollbacker, global sysop
WikiBayer bar, de-4, en-1, gsw-1, nds-1, pfl-1 interface admin, global rollbacker, global sysop
Xaosflux en, es-1, de-1 bureaucrat, CN admin, interface admin, checkuser, oversighter, steward
Zabe de, en-3 global rollbacker, sysadmin
علاء ar, en-4 steward

Temporary adminship or adminship by decree

  • Last updated: 2024-02-15 (edit)
Temporary Meta-Wiki administrators or Meta-Wiki administrators by decree
User name Request page Approved for Granted by Expiration time
WMFOffice (talk · contribs) None  To mirror global blocks locally on meta Jalexander-WMF N/A
GVarnum-WMF (talk · contribs) None WMF Contractor work - Communications Jalexander-WMF N/A
Reedy (WMF) (talk · contribs) None Dashiki work Reedy (WMF) N/A
Milimetric (WMF) (talk · contribs) None Dashiki work Reedy (WMF) N/A
MusikBot II (talk · contribs) RfA protect for templates and modules Matiia N/A (If the bot owner's admin right is removed, this bot's admin right will also be removed.)
SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk · contribs) None WMF staff work NahidSultan (WMF) N/A
AOtto (WMF) (talk · contribs) None WMF staff work NahidSultan (WMF) 2024-03-31
DSaroyan (WMF) (talk · contribs) None WMF staff work JSutherland (WMF) 2025-01-19
Mforns (WMF) (talk · contribs) None WMF staff work NahidSultan (WMF) 2024-03-31
TheresNoTime-WMF (talk · contribs) None WMF staff work JSutherland (WMF) 2024-02-14
STei (WMF) (talk · contribs) None WMF staff work JSutherland (WMF) 2025-02-23
TGorski (WMF) (talk · contribs) None WMF staff work NahidSultan (WMF) 2024-10-27
.Anja. (talk · contribs) RfLA WikiFranca page management Xaosflux 2024-12-12
Abuse filter (talk · contribs) Automatically granted adminship by AbuseFIlter code N/A
MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk · contribs) None WMF staff work JSutherland N/A
Robertsky (talk · contribs) RfLA ESEAP Hub page management M7 2025-02-15


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