Commons:Administrators

This page explains the role of administrators (sometimes called admins or sysops) on Wikimedia Commons. Note that details of the role, and the way in which administrators are appointed, may differ from other sites.

If you want to request administrator help, please post at Commons:Administrators' noticeboard.

There are currently 271 administrators on Commons.

An admin wielding the mop, a common symbol of administrators. See also: The good admin.

What is an administrator?

Administrators as of April 2013 [+/−]

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Sandstein, als, de, en-4, fr-3, it-1 SatuSuro, en, id-1 Sfu, pl, en-2 Shizhao, zh, en-1, ru-1 (steward) Siebrand, nl, en-3, fr-1, de-1 Skeezix1000, en, fr-2 Spiritia, bg, en-3, ru-2, mk-2, de-1 Sreejithk2000, ml, en-3, hi-3, ta-1, kn-1 Steinsplitter, tir, de-4, it-3, en-1 Steven Walling, en Stifle, en, ga, fr-2, de-1 Sven Manguard, en Tabercil, en Tarawneh, en, ar, de-1 Techman224, en TheDJ, nl, en-3, de-1, fr-1 Thuresson, sv, en-3, no-2 Tiptoety, en (checkuser, oversighter) Tom, en, es-1 Trijnstel, nl, en-4, de-1, fr-1 (checkuser, steward) Trixt, it, en-2, fr-1 tsca, pl, en, da Túrelio, de, en-3, es-1 VIGNERON, fr, de-2, en-2, zh-1 Waldir, pt, en-3 Whym, ja, en-2 Wikitanvir, bn, en-3, as-2, bpy-1 (steward) WJBscribe, en, fr-3, de-1 Wknight94, en Wpedzich, pl, en-4, de-2 (steward) Wsiegmund, en, fr-1, es-1 Wutsje, fy, nl, en-3, de-2, fr-1 Wuzur, de, en-3 wvk, de, en-4, fa-3, fr-2 Yann, fr, en-3, hi-2, gu-1 Yarl, pl, en-2, de-1, ru-1 Yuval Y, he, en-3 Zirland, cs, pl-3, en-3, sk-2, eo-2 Zolo, fr, en-4, de-2, zh-2 Zscout370, en, ja-3 Zyephyrus, fr, en-3, la-3, el-2 Zzyzx11, en, es-1, fr-1 KrinkleBot, Bot account; temporary adminship for testing, see also Commons:Bots/Requests/KrinkleBot (2). Brion VIBBER, Temporary adminship: "Temporary enable to look into UW campaign setup". No exact expiry date. The system currently recognizes 271 administrators. If that is not the last number in the list above, there is an error in the list.

Technical

Administrators are users with the technical ability on Wikimedia Commons to:

• delete and undelete images and other uploaded files, and to view and restore deleted versions
• delete and undelete pages, and to view and restore deleted revisions
• protect and unprotect pages, and to edit admin-protected pages
• block and unblock users, individual IP addresses and IP address ranges
• edit the MediaWiki namespace
• rename files

These are collectively known as the admin tools.

Community role

Administrators are experienced and trusted members of the Commons community who have taken on additional maintenance work and have been entrusted with the admin tools by public consensus/vote. Different admins have different areas of interest and expertise, but typical admin tasks include determining and closing deletion requests, deleting copyright violations, undeleting files where necessary, protecting Commons against vandalism, and working on templates and other protected pages. Of course, some of these tasks can be done by non-admins as well.

Administrators are expected to understand the goals of this project, and be prepared to work constructively with others towards those ends. Administrators should also understand and follow Commons' policies, and where appropriate respect community consensus.

Apart from roles which require use of the admin tools, administrators have no special editorial authority by virtue of their position, and in discussions and public votes their contributions are treated in the same way as any ordinary editor. Of course, some admins are influential, but that derives not from their position as such but from the personal trust they have gained from the community.

How do I become an administrator?

First, consider whether becoming an administrator is the best way for you to contribute to the project. Experience shows that outstanding contributors of content often reduce their contributions because of the maintenance overhead after they become admins, and this is what we want least. So please contribute your best skills and understand that there are many ways of getting community credit besides being an admin. Admin status on Commons is not an honour for outstanding content contributors, but just provides an additional set of tools for people who show that they want to clean up.

Consider whether you actually need the admin tools for the work you would like to do. The community does not hand out the tools to those who do not need or who are not likely to make use of them. So, if you need the tools only for a limited period, or in order to clean up your own contributions, please simply ask an existing admin to help you out.

Admins are expected to remain reasonably active here, and if after appointment you cease to use the tools for an extended period you will automatically lose them under our de-admin policy. You should expect as an admin to make yourself available on Commons to a reasonable extent (a userpage that asks people to leave messages for you on some other project is not considered acceptable practice for an admin).

More information about the administrators' community roles can be found at Commons:Guide to adminship.

We do not have any hard and fast rules setting out the minimum period you should have been active on Commons in order to apply for adminship, nor any minimum number of edits. However, the requirement that you be an experienced and trusted member of the Commons community typically means that prior to applying you should have had sufficient breadth and depth of experience here to be able to demonstrate that. If you are an admin or an experienced user on another project, by all means mention that, but bear in mind that off-Commons experience is on its own not normally enough.

Although not mandatory, it is often a good idea to talk to existing admins to get feedback about your experience and approach. You may be able to get another admin to nominate you, although self-nominations are also allowed.

When you request adminship, the community will consider your ability to fill the admin role. Individual Commons contributors may have varying expectations of candidates, and you may wish to review some archived applications to get a sense of what people are looking for. As a practical matter, users often want to see a reasonable level of involvement in admin-type activities such as deletion requests, accurately tagging images as copyright violations, new user patrolling, and so on. Users often want to be satisfied that you are an integral member of the Commons community and will look at the way you interact with others, on user talk pages and elsewhere.

The public discussion and vote

Adminship nominations remain open for at least seven days, for votes and comments, unless withdrawn early as unsuccessful. The period starts when you posted your nomination (if a self-nom) or when you posted your acceptance (if somebody else nominated you). At the end of that period the nomination will be closed by a bureaucrat who will either grant or decline promotion. The nomination may be left open for more than seven days, or a longer period specified, should a bureaucrat consider that desirable.

As a guideline, promotion normally requires at least 75% in favour, with a minimum of 8 support votes. Votes from unregistered users are not numerically counted, although such users may still offer their opinions on the candidate. However, the closing bureaucrat has discretion in judging community consensus, and the decision will not necessarily be based on the raw numbers. Among other things, the closing bureaucrat may take into account the strength of any arguments presented and the experience and knowledge of the commenting users. For example, the comments and votes of users who have zero or few contributions on Commons may at the bureaucrat's discretion be discounted.

If the nomination is successful, the closing bureaucrat will grant the applicant admin rights.

The request for adminship

When you are ready, make sure you have a userpage, enable email in your preferences, then apply, or ask your nominator to apply, back on the main Commons:Administrators page.

Suggestions for administrators

Please read Commons:Guide to adminship.

Removal of administrator rights

Under the de-admin policy, administrator rights may be revoked due to inactivity or misuse of sysop tools.

Apply to become an administrator

First, go to Commons:Administrators/Howto and read the information there. Then come back here and make your request in the section below.

• After clicking on the appropriate button and creating the subpage, copy the link to the subpage, e.g. "Commons:Administrators/Requests/Username", edit Commons:Administrators/Requests and paste it in at the top of the section, then put it in double curly brackets (e.g. {{Commons:Administrators/Requests/Username}} ) to transclude it.

• If someone else nominated you, please accept the nomination by stating "I accept" or something similar, and signing below the nomination itself. The subpage will still need to be transcluded by you or your nominator.

Use the box below, replacing Username with your username:

Voting

Any registered user may vote here although those who have few or no previous edits may not be fully counted. It is preferable if you give reasons both for  Support votes or  Oppose ones as this will help the closing bureaucrat in their decision. Greater weight is given to argument, with supporting evidence if needed, than to a simple vote.

Promotion normally requires at least 75% in favour, with a minimum of 8 support votes. Votes from unregistered users are not counted. However, the closing bureaucrat has discretion in judging community consensus, and the decision will not necessarily be based on the raw numbers.

 Neutral comments are not counted in the vote totals for the purposes of calculating pass/fail percentages. However such comments are part of the discussion, may persuade others, and contribute to the closing bureaucrat's understanding of community consensus.

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Requests for adminship

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When complete, pages listed here should be archived to Commons:Administrators/Archive.

• Please read Commons:Administrators before voting here. Any logged in user may vote, although those who have few or no previous edits may not be fully counted.

Olaf Kosinsky

Vote

Olaf Kosinsky (talk · contributions · deleted user contributions · recent activity · logs · block log · global contribs · SULinfo)

Scheduled to end: 00:00, 6 May 2013 (UTC) voting period extended

Hi there, I'd like to request admin rights for myself, mainly as support for my support team OTRS work, which I am active at since Aug 2012 and my Parliament Project. As files without permission are deleted quite quickly at commons, there is often need to look into deleted versions to verify OTRS tickets, and also to restore images that have got permission. I currently am quite busy in the German permissions queues.

Thank you. Olaf Kosinsky (talk) 13:46, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

<Ratinghistory-table-votes>

•  Support, candidate is OTRS member, trusted, good contributor. -- Cirt (talk) 15:25, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
•  Support trusted user, otrs member. per Cirt--Steinsplitter (talk) 15:35, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
•  Support -- Ra Boe watt?? 16:03, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
•  Support -- really easy to support. Marcus Cyron (talk) 16:26, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
•  Support --Ralf Roleček 16:59, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
•  Support --Nicola (talk) 17:10, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
•  Support --A.Savin 20:10, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
•  Support The candidate clearly states why he needs the flag.--Ymblanter (talk) 22:30, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
•  Support --Rzuwig^► 09:23, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
• support —DerHexer (Talk) 13:32, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
•  Neutral I'm not fully convinced [yet]. Activity on Commons only in the last two weeks - before that he wasn't as active as he was until yesterday. Not convinced he understands the rules on Commons and activity on OTRS isn't huge either (99 closed tickets in total, with only 2 in April and the rest in February 2013 and earlier). Trijnstel_talk 16:21, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
•  Support Yes, clearly. --Capaci34 (talk) 19:07, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
•  Oppose insufficient answers to questions. OTRS doesn't equal admin. Penyulap ☏ 00:18, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
•  Oppose I don't see much experience with copyright cases on the Commons, OTRS or not. Hekerui (talk) 21:49, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
•  Support I know firsthand how annoying it is to try to handle OTRS tickets without the admin tools. Personally, I waited a long time before running in order to have a smoother RfA, but I understand why he would want the tools right now. --King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 07:28, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
•  Support Vogone (talk) 17:03, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
•  Oppose As pointed out by Trijnstel, I can hardly see any OTRS activity. Although it is true that many tickets are not really processable without looking into the deleted file page, we still have real lots of tickets that don't require admin rights, so this doesn't seem to be the whole story here. I really appreciate the projects the candidate is involved with, but the need for the buttons to my opinion is not plausibly illustrated in his application. --Krd 17:05, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
•  Support --cyrfaw (talk) 02:05, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
•  Support --ST ○ 12:46, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
•  Oppose -- Admin status means having access to all the admin tools, not just those needed for OTRS, would like to see more work in other admin areas particularly with regards copyright and deletions first.--KTo288 (talk) 16:11, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
•  Oppose while old questions remain unanswered. Switching to full oppose per Jim - I hadn't looked at the stats. The questions remain unanswered though. --99of9 (talk) 03:42, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
•  Oppose -- I don't see the need for OTRS work, nor for our Parliament project (we know enough admins who are ready to help), few uploads and imo not enough exerience with Commons guidelines. --Martina talk 10:56, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
•  Oppose --Herby ^{talk thyme} 14:00, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
•  Oppose 3,300 edits on Commons, but only 25 in the Commons: namespace, of which 7 are this request, 14 are all one related set of UnDRs, and only one is a DR. We usually look for a minimum of several hundred edits in the Commons: namespace, including a lot of DR work. .     Jim . . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 22:40, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
•  Oppose Per Jim. Concerns with limited activity in the Commons namespace -FASTILY 08:19, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
•  Oppose Per Jim. This is literally the first time I've ever heard of this user. INeverCry 17:07, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
•  Oppose also per Jim. Dearth of contributions is problematic, precluding at the moment analysis of candidate's understanding of Commons and of copyright issues. Эlcobbola _talk 21:29, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
•  Oppose I was really looking forward to voting Support on this candidate. We need people who understand OTRS and don't use the fact that it's backed up to delete files in advance, etc. I also wanted to vote in support because I really disagree that reasons for many of Opposes are valid, they amount to "I have this weird arbitrary criterium which you don't fit". However, this user seemed to have abandoned the desire to answer questions or engage with the community. Perhaps one was driven away, but there's no reason to ignore even my note on the talk page. We probably do need something intermediate between a god and a mortal as a status. Somebody who can view deleted images and revisions, but not necessarily have admin powers. The qualification for that would be just "an established user" and all OTRS members would automatically be included. Sinnamon Girl (talk) 02:56, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Comments

• what editing have you done prior to 2009, can you name any alternate accounts ? Penyulap ☏ 13:57, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

My previous account was motiko98 The account has been renamed to my name --Olaf Kosinsky (talk) 14:06, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

can you name any others, or describe any editing you've done prior to 2009 ? Penyulap ☏ 14:34, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

I have done no edits Before 2009 --Olaf Kosinsky (talk) 16:13, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

have you edited with other accounts or IP's ? Penyulap ☏ 16:32, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

No --Olaf Kosinsky (talk) 08:53, 22 April 2013 (UTC)

• In which way does the Parliament Project require admin rights on Commons? --Krd 15:06, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

As part test images are also uploaded. But this must be deleted. (example: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:13-04-17-landtagsprojekt-hannover-RalfR-191.jpg) --Olaf Kosinsky (talk) 15:53, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

How many image are there approximately to be deleted as temporary test images? You also need admin buttons for OTRS work. How many additional tickets do you estimate to be able to process more than currently using admin tools? --Krd 16:03, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

In Hanover, there were about 200 test images. Per month, I guess about 30 tickets. --Olaf Kosinsky (talk) 16:21, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

As "mastermind" of the project it really would help if Olaf could delete her by himself. It's a great project, alone in 2013 we have about 10 single shootings, mostly over 2 or 3 days with some 100s ore more images for Commons. There is a lot to do, also from administrative site. Marcus Cyron (talk) 16:46, 20 April 2013 (UTC)

• I know it's a bit of an old contribution, but how would you respond if File:Projektbericht Skillshare 2010 03.jpg was nominated for deletion with the rationale: "derivative work"? --99of9 (talk) 11:39, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

• Ping. --99of9 (talk) 03:42, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

• Is File:Westerwelle Guido 1982.jpg really your own work? --99of9 (talk) 11:47, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

Yes. --Olaf Kosinsky (talk) 16:33, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

• You are using a fancy custom template in the author section of {{Information}}. Our gadget that provides the reuse links, generates the following code for attribution:

“

von Dieses Foto ist von Olaf Kosinsky Achtung: Dieses Bild ist nicht gemeinfrei. Es ist zwar frei benutzbar aber gesetzlich geschützt. This photo was created by Olaf Kosinsky Note: this image is not in the Public Domain. It is free to use but protected by law. [...]

”

1. Are you willing moving your fancy custom template below or above {{Information}} and filling-in a single name (optionally linked) into the author section?
2. Are you aware that you can specify how you would like to be attributed using {{Credit line}}? This is also what the gadget that provides the reuse links will then suggest for attribution.
3. CC-By-X licenses also allow you to specify how you want to be attributed: E.g. {{cc-by-sa-3.0|attribution=a short text for how you would like to be attributed}}
4. Will you wrap {{self|license template 1|optional license template 2|attribution=optional attribution}} around the licenses of files you will upload in future if they are self-published, which will categorize the files properly which in turn will help our automated tools to recognize your files as self-published?

-- Rillke^(q?) 19:12, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

• You sometimes use additional templates in the description section of {{Information}} instead of a description of the object, i.e. in File:Adasch, Thomas-8310.jpg. Are you willing to move these templates below the image and licence informations? --Martina talk 21:35, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
• why do you feel Ralf Roletschek would make a good admin, and what do you think makes a good admin generally ? Penyulap ☏ 07:17, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
• Please read COM:PRP. Describe what in your opinion is "significant doubt"? Sinnamon Girl (talk) 08:08, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
• Please commont on COM:SCOPE. Specifically how broad is your interpretation of "providing knowledge; instructional or informative". Sinnamon Girl (talk) 08:08, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
•  Comment I think will be good idea to extend voting for a week. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:18, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
  • I agree. Penyulap ☏ 14:56, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
  • Please make this „official“ by changing the date in Rfa-end. Thank you. -- Rillke^(q?) 08:28, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
  • done Penyulap ☏ 09:34, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
  • I believe that rather than a week, a shorter time of just the day or two required to tip the balance is sufficient, I don't want the RfA to be an en.wiki style 'hazing'. I would withdraw my support for the full week extension and support a close at the 50:50 point. Penyulap ☏ 04:00, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
    • I made a last vote before your comment about 'hazing', I hope that it was not related. I honesly think that this is a good user and I would not wish to do anything that would drive one away from this community. Sinnamon Girl (talk) 05:13, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
      • It is certainly not related to your vote at all. I apologise if it appears that way. My intention is simply to see that the community has had sufficient time to establish it's opinion on a broad enough scale to prevent W:WP:CONLIMITED from occurring, something that might have happened in this case. Perhaps the standard voting period should be extended slightly to prevent this in future, and to encourage more thoughtful consideration of candidates in the early voting. I would like to close the voting at the point where it has reflected the wider community's decision accurately, without going further and damaging our project by making anyone feel unwelcome. Penyulap ☏ 08:42, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

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