Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Wiki-Project Management (Jonathan Obar)/Group 2 Sandbox/How to Become an Admin

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Becoming an administrator on Wikipedia requires a formal Request for Adminship (RfA). A candidate for adminship must either nominate themselves or be nominated by other users. This process includes nomination, acceptance of nomination if not self-nominated, discussion and questions for the candidate and is concluded with the decision of either support, oppose or neutral by current administrators. Once the objections are discussed and all factors taken into consideration, the candidate is either successful or unsuccessful. To submit a nomination, first look over the RfA Guidelines and the RfA main page. Following the guidelines you find there, visit the Request an RfA Nomination.

Visit the tab dedicated to current admins to learn about policies current admins must reference often.

RfA Guidelines
Advice for RfA candidates:
 * Get the most out of a request for adminship
 * Cheatsheet to guide a candidate through the RfA process

Ways to improve odds of being successful include:

 * Improve the site through maintenance
 * Join multiple Wikiprojects
 * Help with the Wikipedia backlog
 * Learn about vandalism and help fix it through creating reports on vandalism or using the rollback feature to undo vandalizing edits.
 * Translating articles for multiple languages
 * Helping new Wikipedians by directing them to the new contributor's help page and remembering the policy WP:BITE

Admin Traits:
History

Versatility

Trustworthiness

Good reputation

Social

Hard Working

Step-by-step instructions, Tips and Warnings
Sources and citations administrators can reference that give more detailed insights about the process:


 * WikiHow has a lot of useful information about the RfA process
 * Guide to requests for adminship
 * Becoming an administrator
 * Requests for adminship
 * Miniguide to requests for adminship
 * Requests for adminship statistics


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