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Administrator
editCan a user apply for Administrator who was previously blocked for Wikipedia:Sock puppetry at the last attempt applying for Administrator.
I believe there should be rules for becoming an Administrator, or not eligible for becoming an Administrator. --Tahir Mahmood (talk) 08:12, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
- Under the current rules, anyone with a registered account can apply for adminship. There are no rules. The community is however usually pretty good at deciding who should become an admin. Sockpuppetry is a serious infringement of policy, but how the community would vote depends on the circumstances and how long ago it was. See: WP:Advice for RfA candidates. --Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 08:42, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
Optional RfA candidate poll
editI'd like to link to the optional opinion poll somewhere in the text. Thoughts? Anna Frodesiak (talk) 03:03, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
I want to be administrator to correct many inaccuracies Anmol23 (talk) 11:19, 26 December 2017 (UTC)
Do admins get paid for the job?
editWikipedia is free and all, but looks like a tedious job and not worth if you don't get paid. All the Barnstars and all are just imaginative computer achievements and mean nothing in real life. Work has no worth if you do not get paid or has no real achievement. But still curious, do admins get paid? if so how? Online transactions like paypal or something? Just curious.... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.230.105.15 (talk) 20:16, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
- Nope. We're all volunteers. Primefac (talk) 20:59, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
RfA guidelines and diversity on Wikipedia
editOne of the big challenges for Wikipedia is how to get to the point where the editor base is better reflective of populations at large. For example, the project I'm involved with have experienced admin decision-making when the admin wasn't knowledgeable about the guidance for notability, and wrongly upheld an RfD decision that was later appealed and overturned. Misapplication of notability guidance when it comes to pages about women, or people who are colours other than white, is fairly frequently reported by our project eds. and in the media.
So, my question is have these guidelines been looked at with an eye to how they contribute to fixing the problem of increasing diversity in the editor base? I can see immediately one thing that would be an issue: quality of pages written. This depends to a large extent on the availability of supporting references, and for plenty of people who are notable, less has been written about them. Simply put, if you're a well-connected, well-off, white man you're more likely to be written about elsewhere, and that gets picked up on Wikipedia.
This is one example but there must be more. Are we looking at this? Claire 75 (talk) 10:54, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
- Hi Claire, there are several issues here and some are being looked at by different parts of the project. Wikipedia:WikiProject Countering systemic bias/Gender gap task force is the main area, especially in looking at our lack of gender diversity in the editor base. Ethnic diversity is probably even more skewed, but to some extent that is a function of the mobile interface being much less good for editing than the PC interface, that combined with much of the world having a smartphone dominated Internet userbase is a major problem in fixing our ethnicity skew. More at meta:Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_Medium-term_plan_2019#Growth_and_the_PC/Smartphone_divide. Our design as a tertiary source does mean we are vulnerable to skews in the primary and secondary sources. Hence recent bad publicity about the story of an assistant professor who didn't have a wikipedia page until she had won a Nobel Prize. Though arguably the real scandal there was that she hadn't been made a full professor. There are various groups, especially in the chapters who are doing outreach to women or on Women's subjects. I'm helping at an event in London on the seventh May. With regards specifically to adminship, the view used to be that our problem was at an earlier stage, once women join the community they have if anything a slight advantage at RFA. That view took a bit of a dent a couple of years ago when one a trolling site elsewhere targeted two of our candidates who "just happened" to be female, but we have had female candidates pass RFA and even RFB since then, (earlier this year Amanda passed RFB by 229 to 6). so I'm not convinced there is currently a problem in getting qualified female candidates to pass, though there is in persuading them to run. As for misogyny by an RFA candidate, anyone can check a candidate's edits and !vote in RFAs. I suspect that if someone found examples of racist or sexist behaviour by a candidate and opposed for that reason, with links, others would check those links and also oppose. ϢereSpielChequers 07:33, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
- thanks for the reply. The issue, as I experience it as an editor who has substantial involvement in trying to improve the gender gap (and yes, there are a whole heap of skews, dealing with this one right now), is that the lack of women editors is a symptom of the gender gap as well as reason for it.
- My concern is to make sure that Wikipedia's 'machinery, such as these guidelines, function to improve the gender gap. So that we don't continually (as our project does) deal with attempts at deletion of women who clearly meet the notability guidance, and admins who either do not know or do not apply these guidelines in their decision making. A clear example of this poor decision making can be seen from the talk page of Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer. An understanding of the gender (and other) gap and the responsibility that admins have to improve or at least not make matters worse is really important. Claire 75 (talk) 15:33, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
apply for administrator
editGood evening from a motivated collage student here, would like to apply for administrator for in our local city in Philippines with the shared goal of preserving local knowledge, promoting language diversity, and making underrepresented cultures visible in the global digital space. Yvessurbano0 (talk) 12:18, 1 August 2025 (UTC)
- @Yvessurbano0. Hey there. Just to clarify, are you asking how to apply for the administrator user group on English Wikipedia? –Novem Linguae (talk) 15:35, 1 August 2025 (UTC)