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

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Administrators on Wikipedia are given certain powers to get their jobs done. They are given the power to block users among other things. Along with these powers, administrators must accept a number of responsibilities. Since there is so much that can be done on Wikipedia, not all administrators take on the same responsibilities. A good place to start when looking at Administrative responsibilities is the Advice for new administrators article. For a more complete list, look under the section below entitled “Duties”. Administrators are also expected to participate in the Wikipedia admin community to some extent. This includes reviewing the RfA Process as discussed in the first section and reviewing other administrators. The Village Pump is a place where many discussions get started about ideas for new projects or existing problems. It is a portal for administrators to voice their thoughts in an open format to the community. There are also many things to avoid when practicing adminship. Check out the links under How Not to be an administrator for those. Administrator conduct can be outlined in the expectations of adminship and the goals of the adminship process.

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

New Admin School
After becoming an admin, the new admin school page is a good place to start.

With that said, there is still information that you won't learn.

Duties

 * Granting and revoking accountcreator
 * Blocking
 * This includes blocking IP addresses, blocking against personal attacks and checking the block log


 * Dealing with disputes
 * Deletion
 * The guidelines for administrators is helpful as well as going over the overall deletion process.


 * Protecting pages which have suffered repeated inappropriate edits
 * Protecting deleted pages (salting)
 * Rollback granting and revoking
 * Understanding the information on the rollback policy is essential

Additional descriptions for these duties are located in the new admin school in the Administrator Privileges section.
 * Viewing deleted pages and contributions

Important Pages

 * Administrator Review


 * Administrator Conduct


 * Goals of the Adminship Process


 * How Not to be an Administrator


 * What Adminship is not


 * Reading list


 * How To Guide


 * New Admin Advice

Noticeboards

 * Administrators' noticeboard
 * Administrators' incidents noticeboard

Village Pump
The Village pump is essentially the place where new ideas on Wikipedia are born. It is important as a user and especially as an administrator to contribute to these conversations.

Admin dashboard template
It is the responsibility of an admin to keep all their projects, policies, duties, etc. organized. Some admins transclude the admin dashboard into their user page to give links to the many reports and tools available to them. ***********&darr;&darr;&darr;&darr;&darr;************

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=General Case Handling Information=
 * Past incidents are located on the Incidents Noticeboard.


 * The Database reports include automated reports on certain issues.


 * Edit warring warring disputes are settled on the noticeboard.


 * The Arbitration Committee is where a panel of editors deal with tough inter-administrative issues.


 * Cases to be reviewed can be requested on the Arbitration Noticeboard

Important Lists
List of blocked IP addresses and usernames

List of admins willing to do difficult blocks that could result in angry users.

Noticeboard
Typical cases require administrators to fulfill several | admin duties


 * Fringe Theories
 * No original research
 * Reliable sources
 * Notability
 * Neutral point of view
 * Conflict of interest
 * Non-free content review
 * Dispute resolution


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