Wikinews:Administrators

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This page is a list of administrators (sometimes called admins or sysops).

Admins can perform a few special tasks such as editing pages in the MediaWiki: namespace (system messages), blocking users, deleting and protecting pages, and granting other users certain rights. They have no extra editorial authority, however. All admin actions are governed by site policy. Statistics on these activities are here.

• Requesting adminship: You are probably qualified for adminship, provided that the following conditions are true:

1. You've done at least two month's work on Wikinews.
2. You are trusted by the community.

You can view some of the latest requests in the archive, where you can also see some common questions, comments and objections made during the process.

• Requesting de-adminship: Stewards are the only users who can remove administrator privileges. They will not de-admin unless there is community consensus for this to happen or at the request of the administrator in question.

• See also: m:Administrators of Wikimedia projects/Wikinews

List of administrators

We currently have 57 administrators on Wikinews who are listed below. Names of bureaucrats are listed in bold.

Users with administrative privileges not otherwise listed

Admin action required

See Wikinews:Admin action alerts. Please put all alerts there.

Requests for permissions

Requests for access rights take place at Wikinews:Requests for permissions.