Sysop

A sysop, also written as SysOp; a shortened portmanteau of 'system operator' – of a wiki or other systems which deal with user accounts online such as bulletin board systems or internet forums, and offline as in corporate intranet, are also known as administrators (usually shortened to admins for brevity). Sysops can perform administrative functions that regular user account holders cannot. Sysops can block difficult people or unblock them, and can delete spam or vandalism. Sysops can also protect pages, unprotect them, and edit protected pages.

All wiki using the MediaWiki software are able to display a full list of current sysops of their wiki, found at /Special:ListUsers/sysop (unless they specifically choose to withold that information). Other wiki engines either don't have easy ways to publish a list of sysops, or the wiki is beautifully simple and doesn't need that role.

Contrary to bureaucrats, sysops aren't necessarily the 'leaders' of wikis; sysops are better compared to 'janitors', because their primary role is to clean up all the wiki crap, such as deleting spam and reverting vandalism.

• Sysops of WikiIndex
• Sysops of MediaWiki.org
• All sysops of English Wikipedia – nearly 1,500!

List of WikiIndex sysops

Recently active sysops include:

• BrandonCsSanders (bureaucrat, staff)
• EarthFurst
• Hoof Hearted (bureaucrat, check user, interwiki, SMW admin, staff)
• Koavf (bureaucrat, check user, interwiki, SMW admin, staff)
• MarkDilley (bureaucrat, leader, check user, interwiki)

To see the complete list of WikiIndex sysops, please go to Special:ListUsers/sysop

See also

• Category:Active administrators of this wiki
• Bureaucrat
  • WikiIndex:Bureaucrats
• Category:User Bot
• Help:Group rights
• WikiIndex:Users

External link

• Help:Sysops and permissions — at MediaWiki.org