TestWiki:Administrators

Administrators are the primary user group for testing the administrator toolkit. It is granted, upon request (usually at TestWiki:Request permissions), to any registered user.

The administrator permission has most of the same user group rights as an administrator on most other projects. Though we use a lot of common sense here and ask that all administrators and registered users do the same, prospective or new administrators are encouraged to read the official policies listed at TestWiki:Policies (especially TestWiki:Main policy). In general terms, this means undoing or otherwise reverting any tests you do and performing test blocks on either User:Example or yourself. If you do wish to perform a test block on another user, a best practice, which you are strongly encouraged to practice here on Public Test Wiki is to obtain their consent, in writing and preferably on-wiki in advance.

The administrator permission grants the ability to:

• View detailed abuse log entries (abusefilter-log-detail)
• Create or modify abuse filters (abusefilter-modify)
• Revert all changes by a given abuse filter (abusefilter-revert)
• See the link to Admin links (adminlinks)
• Use higher limits in API queries (apihighlimits)
• Edit author-protected pages (author)
• Not be affected by IP-based rate limits (autoconfirmed)
• Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
• Block other users from editing (block)
• Block a user from sending email (blockemail)
• Search deleted pages (browsearchive)
• Submit comments (comment)
• Administrate user-submitted comments (commentadmin)
• Use external links in comments (commentlinks)
• Create new user accounts (createaccount)
• Delete pages (delete)
• Delete Dumps (delete-dump)
• Delete tags from the database (deletechangetags)
• View deleted history entries, without their associated text (deletedhistory)
• View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions (deletedtext)
• Delete and undelete specific log entries (deletelogentry)
• Delete and undelete specific revisions of pages (deleterevision)
• Edit all user pages (editalluserpages)
• Edit the user interface (editinterface)
• Edit pages protected as "Allow only administrators" (editprotected)
• Edit pages protected as "Allow only autoconfirmed users" (editsemiprotected)
• Embed PDFs into pages (embed_pdf)
• Create Structured Discussions boards in any location (flow-create-board)
• Delete Structured Discussions topics and posts (flow-delete)
• Edit Structured Discussions posts by other users (flow-edit-post)
• Hide Structured Discussions topics and posts (flow-hide)
• Mark Structured Discussions topics as resolved (flow-lock)
• Generate Dumps (generate-dump)
• Import pages from other wikis (import)
• Import pages from a file upload (importupload)
• Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks (ipblock-exempt)
• Create and (de)activate tags (managechangetags)
• Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits (markbotedits)
• Merge the history of pages (mergehistory)
• Move pages (move)
• Move category pages (move-categorypages)
• Move root user pages (move-rootuserpages)
• Move pages with their subpages (move-subpages)
• Move files (movefile)
• Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)
• Override the spoofing checks (override-antispoof)
• Change page language (pagelang)
• Mark versions of pages for translation (pagetranslation)
• Mark others' edits as patrolled (patrol)
• View recent changes patrol marks (patrolmarks)
• Change protection settings and edit cascade-protected pages (protect)
• Overwrite existing files (reupload)
• Override files on the shared media repository locally (reupload-shared)
• Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page (rollback)
• Perform CAPTCHA-triggering actions without having to go through the CAPTCHA (skipcaptcha)
• Not create redirects from source pages when moving pages (suppressredirect)
• Override the disallowed titles or usernames list (tboverride)
• Import offline translations (translate-import)
• Manage message groups (translate-manage)
• Unblock oneself (unblockself)
• Undelete a page (undelete)
• View a list of unwatched pages (unwatchedpages)
• Upload files (upload)
• Create short URLs (urlshortener-create-url)
• Manage short URLs (urlshortener-manage-url)
• View short URLs management log (urlshortener-view-log)
• View Dumps (view-dump)
• Add, edit and delete categories and forums on the discussion board (wikiforum-admin)
• Edit and delete threads and replies on the discussion board (wikiforum-moderator)

List of administrators

Currently, there are 66 administrators.

• Special:listusers/sysop, an automatically generated list of current administrators on Public Test Wiki