MEpedia:Admin guide

This Admin guide is intended to provide new administrators with the tools and information they need to be successful admins. For more information on admins, see: mepedia:Administrators.

Monitoring

 * Special:RecentChanges
 * Upload log
 * Deletion log
 * Contributors in need: MEpedia:Editor help desk
 * Articles to be deleted: Category:Articles for deletion
 * Websites to add to CAPTCHA whitelist: MediaWiki talk:Captcha-addurl-whitelist
 * Suggestions for admins

Spam and vandalism

 * Spam detector: Special:SmiteSpam and special:SmiteSpamTrustedUsers
 * MediaWiki’s Combating Spam: https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam
 * MediaWiki’s Combating Vandalism: https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_vandalism
 * Blocking users (last resort):
 * special:Block
 * special:BlockList
 * special:AutoblockList (see https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Autoblock )

User maintenance (‘Bureaucrat role’)

 * Rename user: special:RenameUser (is this right?)
 * Delete user: Special:CloseAccount (is this right?)
 * Add or remove admin privileges: Special:ChangeCredentials (is this right?)

User right lists

 * Special:ListUsers/administrator
 * Special:ListUsers/bureaucrat
 * Special:ListUsers/staff #MEAction staff

User notices

 * New user message: Template:Welcome
 * Site notice for non-contributors: mediawiki:Anonnotice
 * Site notice for contributors: mediawiki:Sitenotice

Developer info

 * Suggestions for developers: mepedia:Suggested_tasks
 * Software version and extension info: Special:Version

Learn more

 * MediaWiki Administrator's guide - Wikibooks
 * MediaWiki's 'patrolled' edits - Approving recent changes by marking them as 'patrolled'