On Wikipedia, trusted users may be appointed as administrators (also referred to as admins, sysops or janitors),: 327  following a successful request...

editors were becoming administrators compared to Wikipedia's earlier years, in part because the process of vetting potential administrators had become more...

place additional warnings, though only administrators can carry out the block. In 2005, the English Wikipedia started to require those who create new...

edited Wikipedia for paying clients, using "an army" of sockpuppet accounts that purportedly included 45 Wikipedia editors and administrators. In 2015...

all Wikipedias (down from more than 50% in 2003). The English Wikipedia currently has 47,329,500 registered accounts of which 861 are administrators. The...

started writing on Wikipedia", because "administrators want to exploit high-school and university students, the most common users of Wikipedia, to change their...

separate pages dedicated to that purpose and are not deleted. Wikipedia administrators can see content that has been deleted, but other editors and visitors...

is still in effect. Another important difference is that while Wikipedia administrators are elected for an indefinite period, anybody can start a formal...

generated by Lsjbot, a bot, or software application. The administrators on the Swedish Wikipedia (currently 65) are elected for a fixed-term period of one...

and power differentials" between administrators and other editors. Analyzing the entire edit history of English Wikipedia up to July 2006, the same study...