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 | This page in a nutshell: Sometimes a Request for adminship stands every chance of succeeding. On these occasions, Bureaucrats should close it before the scheduled end time, after respectfully notifying the community there is no point in making comments as it is a done deal. If this has happened to you, please remember this does not mean you're some kind of super admin, just that the community can't be bothered to wait 7 days before you take up the drudgery. |
Administrators, commonly known as admins, sysops (system operators) or cabalists, are Wikipedians who have certain extra tools. Unless you are a Bot, these can only be acquired through the following methods;
- A request for adminship (known by the acronym, "RfA")
- Doing really clever technical wonkery stuff on the software that runs the shop
- Starting the darn site in the first place
- Bribery. However of all four options this one is the least likely to ensure you get to keep the tools.
In short – think RfA.
RfAs run for up to seven days after being transcluded onto the main RfA page; but if they are clearly going to succeed they should be closed early. If you are reading this page it is possible that this has happened to your RfA. Alternatively, you may have been sent here by another Wikipedian, whom you approached because you wish to become an administrator, and it was blindingly obvious that you should be one already without all the tedious mucking around at RfA.