Administrators, commonly known as admins or sysops (system operators), are DJBWiki editors who have been trusted with access to restricted technical features. For example, administrators can protect and delete pages, and block other editors.
They are generally members of the Wiki Staff.
Technical Ability
- Block a user from sending e-mail (blockemail)
- Block other users from editing (block)
- Bypass IP blocks, auto-blocks and range blocks (ipblock-exempt)
- Bypass automatic blocks of proxies (proxyunbannable)
- Change protection levels and edit protected pages (protect)
- Create new user accounts (createaccount)
- Delete pages (delete)
- Delete pages with large histories (bigdelete)
- Edit other users' CSS and JS files (editusercssjs)
- Edit semi-protected pages (autoconfirmed)
- Edit the user interface (editinterface)
- Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled (autopatrol)
- Import pages from a file upload (importupload)
- Import pages from other wikis (import)
- Mark others' edits as patrolled (patrol)
- Mark rolled-back edits as bot edits (markbotedits)
- Move files (movefile)
- Move pages (move)
- Move pages with their subpages (move-subpages)
- Move root user pages (move-rootuserpages)
- Not be affected by rate limits (noratelimit)
- Override files on the shared media repository locally (reupload-shared)
- Overwrite an existing file (reupload)
- Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page (rollback)
- Search deleted pages (browsearchive)
- Submit a trackback (trackback)
- Undelete a page (undelete)
- Upload a file from a URL address (upload_by_url)
- Upload files (upload)
- Use higher limits in API queries (apihighlimits)
- View a list of unwatched pages (unwatchedpages)
- View deleted history entries, without their associated text (deletedhistory)
- confirmaccount (confirmaccount)
- skipcaptcha (skipcaptcha)