Global Administrators

Global Administrators This page describes the role and responsibilities of Global administrators (global sysop), and outlines the procedures for gaining or losing the rights.

Global Administrator is a global group.

Globally

Global Administrators are users with additional technical capabilities on all wikis. They use these technical capabilities to perform routine maintenance, such as deleting old pages and blocking vandal accounts. They have the technical ability to do the following (not an exhaustive list):

• Protect pages
• Delete and undelete pages, revisions and logged actions
• Block and unblock users
• Edit fully protected pages, and those in the MediaWiki namespace
• Grant and revoke certain user permissions
• Create and manage central notices globally
• Edit the Global title blacklist

Becoming a Global Administrator

Global Administrator is a highly trusted role, giving users the ability to manage certain global functionality, such as central notices and the global title blacklist. In order for a user to become an administrator, they must request it on the Requests for global roles page. For the request to be deemed successful, there needs to be the following:

• At least 5 users vote in the discussion
• At least an 80% support ratio
• The request must have been open for at least 14 days

Revocation

In the event that a request for the removal of administrator for a user is opened on the Community portal, for the request to be deemed successful, there needs to be the following:

• A 50% support ratio
• The request has been open for at least 3 days
• At least 3 users vote in the discussion

See also

• Special:ListGroupRights - list of global administrator rights
• Special:ListUsers/global-sysop - automated list of global administrators