Wikipǣdia:Bewitendas

Þis geƿrit hæfþ ƿordcƿide on Nīƿenglisce.

Beƿitendas, gelǣrde sƿā admins and eac hātene sysops (system operators), sind Ƿicipǣdia ēditeras hƿelċ habbað andfȳndunga tō cræftlicum fēaþum hƿelċ fremiað mid hēaldnesse. Ænglisc Ƿicipǣdian geƿuna is tō syllan ƿeald beƿitendum tō ǣghƿilcum hƿelċ hæfð ƿæs hēafodlic and symle Ƿicipǣdian lǣstend for hƿelċ feaƿ mōnðas, cūð and ārǣran Ƿicipǣdian gerǣdnesse, and hƿelċ hæfð befohten trēoƿan þæs folcsċipes. Hī magon ġeƿērgian and fordōn bōcscēatas, beluccan oþre ēditeras, and ūtādōn þās dæda sƿā ēac. Þās geƿeald sind ġeƿiten untō ƿorolde, and sind ānum frōcuman æt bēne oððe under intingan hƿelċ befiemað hēahþrymlic bēhƿeorfnes (seoh beþencung bewitenda nīðe hēonan). Beƿitendas underfōð eac swīðran gesetnessa on sylfwilles bē, and ne sind ƿeorcsmiþas þæs Wikimedia Foundation (Englisc: Ƿicimǣdia Grundweorc).

On þǣm swīðe ǣrestan dagum Ƿicipǣdia, ealle ƿyrhtan dǣdon eallswā swā bewitendas, and on þēorie hīe stille sceoldon. Fram ǣrestan tīde, hit is gesǣd þæt beƿitendas ne sceoldon nā giefan hīe sylfe tō speclicum underhlōðe þæs folcsċipes, ac sceoldon bēon dǣl þæs folcsċipes swā swā ōðre menn. Ġemǣnelīce, se hēaldscip and rīcscipe. Ƿicipǣdian mæġ bēon fremed fram ǣghwilcum, būtan þǣm speclicum cræftum þe sind bewitendum geset. Þā tōlas þe sind bewitendum ġeseald sind cræftlīce and ne syllað ānrǣdnesse per se (Englisc: be him sylfum), beƿitendas sind folc þe sind betrymede mid, ġif hīe ne bēoð rihte ġebrūcode, swīðe hearmlicum tōlum.

Þæs þe bewitendas sind wēnede tō bēon ġefēran folcsċipes þe ġewiten hæfdon, brūcaþ þā þe fultum sēcað oft wendað tō bewitende for rǣd and ġewit, oððe on geflite. On ġemǣnelīcum wīse, bewitendas þe swā dōð sind nēodrǣde; hī nabbað nān dǣlriht on þǣm intingan þe hī folc mid fultumiað.

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Bewitend tōlum

Sēo wiki (Englisc: ƿici) sēftewǣr hæfþ fēawa þinga þe sind ġebunden. Þā tōlas befēoð weorc swā swā bōcscēata fordēl, bōcscēata ġewērgung, belīes and unbelīes, and andfȳndnes tō awendan ġewergode bōcscēatas and þone MediaWiki ġemǣnscipe.

Ealle fullice dǣlas and sprǣce be hira brūcunge sind gereccede æt Wikipedia:Administrators/Tōlum (āƿriten on Nīƿenglisc).

Mearca þæt bewitendas be rǣd gesēo swā ylce IP ġewit be brūcendum swā þā ōðre (unbewitende) brūcendas gesēo, and hī ne magon ne gesēon þā bōcscēatas þe sind fordǣlde mid ofersiht, ne awendan oðra brūcenda bot oþþe sysop hād. Ēghwilc þāra behōfað ǣcclīcre wealdscipe, sē þe bið ānum fēawum brūcendum ġeseald.

Bewitendscipe

Nis nān gesetlic bēnnes tō weorðan Ƿicipǣdia bewitend. Ānġe hwā mæg bēn cȳðan, nē āðrēd his Ƿicipǣdian ġefēran. Hweðere, þæt ne mǣnð nā þæt nān ġemǣre ne sȳ tō oncnāwanne.

Ongēan þǣm is bewitendscipe ġerǣd tō folcsċipes trēowe and cnyttres, nales tō ċecklistum and ġedīt rīmum; ǣghwilc brūcaþ hæfð his āgenne wǣg tō mǣtan his trēowan on candiðates gearwednesse tō þǣm weorce.

Nūtīdig bewitendas

Sēo Ænglisc Ƿicipǣdia hæfð sōðlīce ēcelīce beƿitendas.

For nūtīdne list þāra nēahbewitendra, geseoh þās bōcscēatas for þǣm listum. Gif þū bewitendlicne fultum þearft and nān ne is nēah, þū meaht āscian ōððe þone stiƿeard (brūcend þe hæfð bewitendscipe ǣghwǣr) oþþe þone ƿoroldbeƿitend (brūcend þe hæfð bewitendscipe on manegum smætlīcum ƿicium, þāra in is þis ān).

Þǣre is on þissum dæge 1 nēarbī bewitend on sēo Ænglisc Ƿikipǣdia:

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Weard bewitendas

Nis hit swīðe rǣd

Sceortpæþ:
WP:DEAL

Ǣn oft ġespecenword abūtan sē titul and sette æf bewitendascipe – ġenemned sysops hēr – þæt folgiende, ġesæġd bī Jimbo Wales (Englisc: Iaccobus Wēalas) on Solmōnað 2003:

I just wanted to say that becoming a sysop is *not a big deal*.
I think perhaps I'll go through semi-willy-nilly and make a bunch of people who have been around for awhile sysops. I want to dispel the aura of "authority" around the position. It's merely a technical matter that the powers given to sysops are not given out to everyone.
I don't like that there's the apparent feeling here that being granted sysop status is a really special thing.

– Jimbo Wales, wikimedia.org archive entry, gmane archive entry

Nīwer andġiet þisses sprǣċes, swā hit is on 2025, wǣre þæt bewitendas hæbbað hēah weorcgebyrd, and hira rihte brūcung þāra tōla and ġeþēode licgað on miclum þearfe. Ac se naman "bewitend" nis micel þing, ne sceal þæs onfēng bēon swā micel þing āwreġed. Nān ēacen rǣdmōdnes bēoð mid þǣm bewitendscipe, ne nān frīestbēoð on folcġeþēode rǣdum. On þǣm wīse, hwæþer man is bewitend oþþe nā, nis hit sylf ānum rǣdlic þing.

Becoming an administrator

If you are interested in becoming an admin, you should first read the guide to requests for adminship and the nomination instructions. When you are ready, you may add your nomination to the Wikipedia:Requests for adminship ("RFA") page, according to these instructions. A discussion will then take place among fellow editors about whether you should become an administrator. After seven days, a bureaucrat will determine if there is consensus to give you admin status.

You should become familiar with Wikipedia by editing for a while before requesting or accepting a nomination for administrator status; you need to know what you are doing, and other brūcaþ will need to recognize you in order to agree on trusting you with admin tools. Keep in mind that each language's Wikipedia has its own policies for administrators, which may differ from this (the English) Wikipedia.

Although multiple brūcaþ accounts are allowed on Wikipedia in general, only one account of a given person should have administrative tools. The sole exceptions are by agreement of Arbcom or the community.

Warna þū, ic bidde!

If you are granted access, you must exercise care in using these new functions, especially the ability to delete pages and the ability to block IP addresses. You can learn how to do these things at the Administrators' how-to guide and the new administrator school. Please also look at the pages linked from the Administrators' reading list before using your administrative abilities.

Administrator tools are also used with judgment; it can take some time for a new administrator to learn when it's best to use the tools, and it can take months to gain a good sense of how long a period to set, when using tools such as blocking and page protection in difficult disputes. New administrators are strongly encouraged to start slowly and build up experience on areas they are used to, and by asking others if unsure.

Administrators and all other brūcaþ with extra tools are expected to have a strong password, to prevent damage in the case of a compromised account. (See also Wikipedia:Security.)

If you have exercised your right to vanish, and return under a new name, your new name can request administrator access by contacting a bureaucrat privately and producing satisfactory evidence of being the same brūcend, provided you did not originally request desysopping under controversial circumstances. This will not guarantee privacy, however, as new accounts which are granted sysop rights without an RfA tend to attract attention and speculation.

Administrator conduct

Administrators, like all brūcaþ, are not perfect beings. However in general they are expected to act as role models within the community, and a good general standard of civility, fairness, and general conduct both to brūcaþ and in content matters, is expected.^{[1] [2] [3]} When acting as administrators, they are also expected to be fair, exercise good judgment, and give explanations and be communicative as necessary.

Administrators who seriously, or repeatedly, act in a problematic manner or have lost the trust or confidence of the community may be sanctioned or have their access removed. In the past, this has happened or been suggested for:

Misuse of tools (deletion, protection, blocking in clearly improper circumstances)
Breach of basic policies (attacks, biting/civility, edit warring, privacy, etc)
Repeated/consistent poor judgment
Fighting with the tools (known as "wheel warring"). Summary: With very few exceptions, as soon as an action using tools is reversed by another administrator, it should not be reinstated by the original brūcend or any admin, no matter how good the intention may be, without consensus. But see also exceptions below.
Failure to communicate^[4] - this can be either to brūcaþ(eg lack of suitable warnings or explanations of actions), or to concerns of the community (especially when explanations or other serious comments are sought).
'Bad faith' adminship (sock puppetry, good hand/bad hand, gross breach of trust^[5], etc)
Conduct elsewhere incompatible with adminship (off site attacking, etc)

Places where administrators in particular can assist

Administrator rights can be particularly helpful for working in certain areas of Wikipedia.

Incidents that may require admin intervention
Three-revert rule violations
Intervention against vandalism
Copyright problems (advice for admins)
Candidates for speedy deletion
Administrative backlog
Enforcing Arbitration Committee decisions
Administrators will also find their tools useful for Recent changes patrol.

See also Wikipedia:Admins willing to make difficult blocks, where admins willing to handle more difficult blocks and other situations can make themselves known.

Grievances by brūcaþ ("Administrator abuse")

If a user thinks an administrator has acted improperly against them or another editor, they should express their concerns directly to the administrator responsible and try to come to a resolution in an orderly and civil manner. However, if the matter is not resolved between the two parties, brūcaþ can take further action (see Wikipedia:Dispute Resolution). For more possibilities, see Requests for comment/User conduct: Use of administrator privileges and Administrator's noticeboard: Incidents

Misuse of tools

Wikipǣdia:Administrators/Misuse of tools section

Reinstating a reverted action ("Wheel warring")

Administrators are strictly forbidden from fighting over the use of administrative tools by using those tools, whether for desirable reasons or not.

With very few exceptions, when an action performed using tools has been rejected to the point that another administrator has reversed it (or similar related actions were reversed), then there is almost never a valid reason for the original or any other administrator to reinstate the same or similar action (or end result) again, without clear discussion leading to a consensus decison. Administrators who do so risk desysopping for abuse of their access.

As a corollary, reversal of an administrative action should also not be undertaken lightly, or without good cause.

Exceptional circumstances

With very few exceptions, once tool use has been reverted, tools should not be used by the original (or any other) administrator in that matter (even for a desirable reason). There are a few, specific, exceptions where re-use of tools may be reasonable:

WP:BLP - material deleted because it contravenes BLP may be re-deleted if reinstated, if it continues to be non-BLP-compliant.
Privacy - personal information deleted under the Foundations privacy policy may be re-deleted if reinstated.
Emergency - in certain situations there may arise an emergency that cannot be adjourned for discussion. An administrator should not claim emergency unless there is a reasonable belief of a present and very serious emergency (ie, reasonable possibility of actual, imminent, serious harm to the project or a user if not acted upon with admin tools), and should immediately seek to describe and address the matter, but in such a case the action should not usually be reverted (and may be reinstated) until appropriate discussion has taken place.
Page protection in edit warring - reasonable actions undertaken by uninvolved administrators to quell a visible and heated edit war by protecting a contended page should be respected by all brūcaþ, and protection may be reinstated if needed, until it is clear the edit war will not resume or consensus agrees it is appropriate to unprotect.

Note these are "one way" exceptions; for example, an exception for re-deletion does not imply that an exception exists for re-reversal, unless consensus seeking has taken place.

Removal of adminship

Administrators can be removed if they misuse their powers. Currently, administrators may be removed either at the request of Jimbo Wales or by a ruling of the Arbitration Committee. At their discretion, lesser penalties may also be assessed against problematic administrators, including the restriction of their use of certain powers or placement on administrative probation. The technical ability to remove administrator status rests with stewards.

There have been alternative procedures suggested for the removal of sysop status, but none of them have achieved consensus. Some administrators will voluntarily stand for reconfirmation under certain circumstances; see Category:Wikipedia administrators open to recall.

(Note - removal of rights does not currently show up in the usual user logs. Use {{Userrights|username}} for full links to user rights information and full logs, including the stewards' global logs on meta as well, or Syndrig:Listusers to verify a brūcaþes current rights.)

Security

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It is extremely important that administrators have strong passwords and follow personal security practices. Because they have the potential to cause site-wide damage with a single edit, a compromised sysop account will be blocked and its privileges removed on grounds of site security. In certain circumstances, the revocation of privileges may be permanent. Discretion on resysopping temporarily desysopped administrators is left to bureaucrats, who will consider whether the rightful owner has been correctly identified, and their view on the incident and the management and security (including likely future security) of the account.