Administrator (Also known as SysOp) is the rank above User but below Bureaucrat. You can only be made an admin by a Bureaucrat.
Group rights
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Administrators can:
- Block a user from sending email
- Block other users from editing
- Change protection levels of pages
- Delete pages
- Edit pages protected as "Allow only administrators"
- Edit the user interface
- Have one's own edits automatically marked as patrolled
- Mark others' edits as patrolled
- Mass delete pages (nuke)
- Merge pages (and histories) and users
- UserMerge allows admins to delete the old user upon merge
- Quickly rollback the edits of the last user who edited a particular page
- Search deleted pages
- Unblock oneself
- Undelete a page
- View a list of unwatched pages
- View deleted history entries, without their associated text
- View deleted text and changes between deleted revisions
- View spam blacklist log
- blockandnuke
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Administrators cannot:
- Confirm new users
- Change what group a user is in
- Change the rights of a group of users
- Install MediaWiki extensions/Widgets
Current list of Admins (excluding Bureaucrats)
For even more information, see
- MediaWiki:User rights