Wiki143:Administrators' reading list

Template:Infopage Admins are expected to have an intimate understanding of Wikipedia policy. They are also expected to consistently demonstrate comprehension of these policies. This is especially important regarding the use of abilities entrusted to admins that are unavailable to regular users and editors of Wikipedia.

The following items are considered highly recommended reading material. These pages detail prerequisite knowledge required by an admin:

Should already know

• Five pillars of Wikipedia
• Founding principles: Core principles guiding all Wikimedia projects.

General

• Administrators
• Administrators' guide
• Administrators' noticeboard, where admin issues are discussed
  • Administrators' noticeboard where 3RR violations are reported
  • Administrators' noticeboard where incidents are reported
• Administrative action review noticeboard, where administrative actions by administrators can be discussed and reviewed
• Wikipedia:List of policies

Blocking

• Banning policy
• Blocking IP addresses
• Blocking policy

Closing discussions

• Accountability
• Closing discussions
• Ending RfCs
• Requests for closure noticeboard
• Rough consensus
• Supervote

Content policies

• Biographies of living persons
• Neutral point of view
• No original research
• Verifiability

Controversy

• List of controversial issues
• NPOV dispute
• Wheel war

Copyright

• Copyrights

Deletion

• Criteria for speedy deletion
• Deletion guidelines for administrators
• Deletion policy
• Deletion process
• Undeletion policy
• Revision deletion policy

Page protection

• Protection policy

Requests

• Backlogged processes requiring attention
• Changes related to Wikipedia:Requests for administrator attention
• Enforcement of arbitration rulings

Rollback

• Rollback

Security

• User account security

Vandalism

• Dealing with vandalism
• Vandalbot

Miscellaneous

• Advice for new administrators
• Editing the main page
• Fixing cut and paste moves
• Goals of the adminship process
• Image use policy
• MediaWiki Administrator's Handbook
• Office actions
• Open proxies
• Requested moves/Closing instructions
• Village stocks – some things administrators have done by mistake in the past. Laugh, and avoid repetition.
• What adminship is not
• The mushroom effect