Xenharmonic Wiki:Administrators
Administrators, commonly known as admins or sysops (system operators), are Xenharmonic Wiki editors who have been granted the technical ability to perform certain special actions on the Xenharmonic Wiki. These include the ability to block and unblock user accounts, IP addresses, and IP ranges from editing, edit fully protected pages, protect and unprotect pages from editing, delete and undelete pages, rename pages without restriction, and use certain other tools.
Administrators assume these responsibilities as volunteers after undergoing a community review process or being elected by their fellow editors. They are never required to use their tools, and must never use them to gain an advantage in a dispute in which they were involved. Administrators should not be confused with bureaucrats or system administrators (sysadmins).
Administrators' abilities
- Batch delete pages
- Block or unblock a user from sending email
- Block or unblock other users from editing
- Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks
- Change protection settings and edit cascade-protected pages
- Create and (de)activate tags
- Create new user accounts
- Delete tags from the database
- Delete pages
- Delete pages with large histories
- Edit pages protected as "Allow only administrators"
- Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users"
- Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled
- Import pages from other wikis
- Make string replacements on the entire wiki
- Mark others' edits as patrolled
- Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits
- Merge the history of pages
- Move category pages
- Move files
- Move pages
- Move pages with their subpages
- Move root user pages
- Not be affected by IP-based rate limits
- Not be affected by rate limits
- Not create redirects from source pages when moving pages
- Override files on the shared media repository locally
- Overwrite existing files
- Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA
- Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page
- Search deleted pages
- Unblock oneself
- Undelete a page
- Upload files
- Use higher limits in API queries
- View a list of unwatched pages
- View deleted history entries, without their associated text
- View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions
- View the queue with requested accounts
Becoming an administrator
As per Xenharmonic Wiki:Referendum#Question 8, voted on February 16th, 2025:
- Any future admin nominations or removals should be discussed with everyone giving their opinions freely. After a set period the discussion closes and a bureaucrat reviews all of the arguments, and makes the final decision. The outcome should be based on community consensus (near unanimity) and not majority vote.
List of administrators
Current administrators
- See also: Special:ListUsers?group=sysop
- User:Carl Lumma (since ≤2018)
- User:Genewardsmith (since ≤2018)
- User:Hstraub (since ≤2018)
- User:Jlmoriart (since ≤2018)
- User:Keenan Pepper (since ≤2018)
- User:Mike Battaglia (since ≤2018)
- User:Sevish (since ≤2018)
- User:Tyler Henthorn (since ≤2018)
- User:Vaisvil (since ≤2018)
- User:Xenjacob (since ≤2018)
- User:Xenwolf (since ≤2018)
- User:Spt3125 (since 2018)
- User:TallKite (since 2018)
- User:FloraC (since 2021)
- User:Lériendil (since 2025)
- User:Fredg999 (since 2025)
Former administrators
The following users were organizers on the Wikispaces instance of the Xenharmonic Wiki, but were not reinstated as sysops on the MediaWiki instance (seeing as these users did not create new accounts):
- Sarzadoce
- Cenobyte