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This page in a nutshell: Administrators on Wikimedia Commons are users with additional technical abilities to manage the site. They can delete and restore files and pages, protect pages, block users, rename files, and perform other administrative tasks. There are currently 181 administrators on Commons. To become an administrator, users can apply and go through a voting process.

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If you want to request administrator help, please post at Administrators' noticeboard.

There are currently 181 administrators on Commons.

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Administrators as of February 2025
Listing by: Language • Date • Activity [+/−]

Number of Admins: 181

  1. 1234qwer1234qwer4, ru, de-4, en-3
  2. 1Veertje, nl, en-4, de-1, fr-1
  3. 32X, de, en-2, hsb-1, ru-1
  4. 99of9, en (bureaucrat)
  5. A.Savin, ru, de-4, en-2
  6. Aafi, ks, ur-5, en-3, hi-2, ar-1
  7. Abzeronow, en, fr-1
  8. Achim55, de, en-3, nds-3, la-2
  9. AFBorchert, de, en-3
  10. Ahonc, uk, ru-4, en-2, de-1
  11. Aka, de, en-3
  12. Alno, fr, en-3, es-2, pt-1
  13. Андрей Романенко, ru, en-3, uk-3, be-2, fr-2, lv-2
  14. Ankry, pl, en-2, ru-1
  15. AnRo0002, de, en-2, fr-2, es-1
  16. Anthere, fr, en-3
  17. AntiCompositeNumber, en, fr-2 (steward)
  18. Aude, en, ar-2, de-2, es-3
  19. Auntof6, en, es-2, fr-1
  20. Bastique, en, fr-3, es-2, la-2, fi-1, pl-1
  21. Bedivere, es, en-4, pt-1
  22. Billinghurst, en
  23. Blackcat, it, en-3, fr
  24. BrightRaven, fr, en-3, nl-2, es-2, zh-1
  25. Butko, ru, uk-2, en-1
  26. Captain-tucker, en
  27. Christian Ferrer, fr, en-2, es-2
  28. Ciell, nl, en-2, de-1
  29. Common Good, en
  30. CptViraj, gu, hi-4, en-3 (bureaucrat)
  31. Cromium, en, de-1, fr-1
  32. Cybularny, pl, en-2, es-1, de-1
  33. Czar, en
  34. DaB., de, en-1
  35. DarwIn, pt, en-3, es-2, fr-2, gl-2, ca-1, it-1, oc-1
  36. Davepape, en
  37. DerHexer, de, en-3, grc-3, la-3, es-1 (steward)
  38. Dharmadhyaksha, mr, en-3, hi-3
  39. DMacks, en
  40. Didym, de, en-2, fr-2
  41. Dyolf77, ar, fr-5, en-2, it-1, es-1
  42. D-Kuru, de, en-2, it-1
  43. Ebrahim, en-3
  44. Elcobbola en, de (checkuser)
  45. Ellin Beltz, en (bureaucrat)
  46. Ellywa, nl, en-2, de-1, fr-1
  47. Emha, de, bar, en-3, fr-1
  48. Érico, pt, en-2, es-1
  49. EugeneZelenko, ru, be, en-2, bg-1, pl-1 (bureaucrat)
  50. Explicit, en, es, ko-2
  51. Ezarate, es-3, en-1
  52. Fitindia, en-3, hi-2, mr-2
  53. FunkMonk, da, en-4, no-3, fo-2, sv-2, de-1, es-1
  54. Gbawden, en-3, af-1
  55. Geagea, he, ka-3, en-3, ru-1
  56. Geni, en
  57. George Chernilevsky, ru, uk-3, de-2, en-2, bg-1, la-1, be-1, fr-1
  58. Gestumblindi, als, de, en-3
  59. Gnangarra, en, nys-1
  60. GPSLeo, de, en-2
  61. GreenMeansGo, en
  62. Grin, hu, en-3, de-1
  63. Hekerui, de, en-4
  64. Herbythyme, en, fr-2, es-1, it-1
  65. Hesperian, en
  66. Holly Cheng, en, ja-2
  67. Huntster, en
  68. Indeedous, de, en-3, fr-2
  69. Infrogmation, en, es-1
  70. IronGargoyle, en, de-1
  71. Jameslwoodward, en, fr-1 (bureaucrat, checkuser)
  72. Jaqen, it, en-2
  73. Jarekt, pl, en
  74. Jcornelius, de, lt-2, la-2, en-2, pt-2, fr-1
  75. Jdforrester, en
  76. Jean-Frédéric, fr, en-4, es-1
  77. Jianhui67, en, zh-4, ja-2, ms-2
  78. Jmabel, en, es-3, ro-2, de-1, ca-1, it-1, pt-1, fr-1
  79. Joergens.mi, de, en-3
  80. JoKalliauer, de, en-3
  81. Jon Kolbert, en, fr-4, de-2 (steward)
  82. Josve05a, sv, en-3
  83. Jusjih, zh, en-3, fr-2, ko-1
  84. Kadı, tr, en-5, fr-2, az-2
  85. Kallerna, fi, en-3, sv-2, de-1
  86. King of Hearts, en, zh-3, es-2, ja-1
  87. Klemen Kocjancic, sl, en-3, de-2, hr-1, bs-1
  88. Krd, de, en-3 (bureaucrat, checkuser)
  89. Krinkle, nl, en-3, de-2
  90. Kritzolina, de, en-3, fr-2, it-1
  91. Léna, fr, en-3, es-1
  92. Leyo, gsw, de, en-3, fr-3, es-1, la-1
  93. Lofty abyss, en, mt, it-2
  94. Lymantria, nl, en-3, de-2, fy-2, fr-1, zea-1
  95. Magog the Ogre, en, es-2
  96. Mahagaja, en, de-4, fr-2, ga-2, la-2, cy-1
  97. Maire, pl, en-4, es-2, fr-2, de-2, ru-1
  98. Marcus Cyron, de, en-2
  99. Masur, pl, en-3, de-1
  100. Materialscientist, en-4, ru-4, nl-3, fr-1, es-1
  101. Matrix, en, ta-2
  102. MB-one, de, en-3, fr-1, pt-1
  103. MBisanz, en
  104. Mdaniels5757, en, es-1
  105. MGA73, da, en-3, de-2, no-1, sv-1
  106. Mhhossein, fa, en-3, ar-1
  107. Micheletb, fr, en-3, it-1, es-1
  108. Mike Peel, en, pt-2, fr-1
  109. Minorax, en, zh (oversighter)
  110. Missvain, en
  111. Mitchazenia, en, es-2
  112. Miya, ja, en-2
  113. Moheen, bn, as-1, bpy-1, en-3, hi-1, hif-1
  114. Morgankevinj, en
  115. MPF, en, da-2, de-1, fr-1
  116. Multichill, nl, en-3, de-1, fr-1
  117. Mys 721tx, zh, en-3
  118. Nagy, de, en-3, fr-2, es-1, sv-1
  119. NahidSultan, bn, en-3, bpy-1
  120. Natuur12, nl, en-3, de-1
  121. notafish, fr, en-4, de-3, es-2, it-2
  122. odder, pl, en-4, de-2 (bureaucrat, oversighter)
  123. P199, en, nl, fr-2, tl-2, de-1
  124. Pi.1415926535, en, es-2
  125. Platonides, es, en-2, fr-1
  126. Poco a poco, es, de-4, en-3, fr-2, it-2, pl-2, pt-1
  127. Podzemnik, cs, en-2
  128. Polarlys, de, en-2, fr-1, no-1
  129. Pyb, fr, en-2
  130. Pymouss, fr, en-3, de-2, it-2, he-1
  131. Racconish, fr, en-4
  132. Ragesoss, en, de-1, fr-1
  133. Ra'ike, de, en-2
  134. Rastrojo, es, en-3, fr-2, eo-1
  135. Ratekreel, ks, en-3, ur-3
  136. Raymond, de, en-3, nl-1 (oversighter)
  137. Red-tailed hawk, en, es-4, pt-2, ug-1
  138. Regasterios, hu, en-1
  139. Rehman, en, si-1
  140. Reinhard Kraasch, de, en-3
  141. Revi C., ko, en-3
  142. Rimshot, de, en-4, fr-2, it-1
  143. Romaine, nl, en-3, de-2, af-1, fr-1
  144. Rosenzweig, de, en-3, fr-1, la-1
  145. Royalbroil, en, es-1
  146. RP88, en, de-1
  147. Rudolphous, nl, en-3, de-2
  148. Ruthven, it, fr, en-4, es-4, nap-4, ca-2, de-1
  149. Sadads, en, es-3
  150. Sanandros, als, de, en-3, fr-1
  151. Satdeep Gill, pa, en-5, hi-5, es-3, fr-2, fa-1
  152. Shizhao, zh, en-1, ru-1
  153. Sreejithk2000, ml, en-3, hi-3, ta-1, kn-1
  154. Steinsplitter, bar, de-4, it-3, en-1
  155. Stifle, en, ga, fr-2, de-1
  156. Storkk, en, fr-3, de-2, eo-2
  157. Strakhov, es, en-2
  158. TadejM, sl, en-3, de-2, fr-2
  159. Taivo, et, en-3, ru-3, de-1
  160. Teles, pt, en-3, es-2
  161. Themightyquill, en, fr-2, de-1, hu-1
  162. The Squirrel Conspiracy, en
  163. Thibaut120094, fr, en-2, ja-1
  164. Thuresson, sv, en-3, no-2
  165. Triplec85, de, en-3, fr-1, hr-1, la-1
  166. Tulsi, ne, mai, en-3, hi-2, hif-2, bh-1
  167. Túrelio, de, en-3, es-1
  168. VIGNERON, fr, de-2, en-2, zh-1
  169. Wdwd, de, en-2
  170. Well-Informed Optimist, ru, uk-4, en-3
  171. Wikitanvir, bn, en-3, de-2, as-2, bpy-1
  172. Wutsje, fy, nl, en-3, de-2, fr-1
  173. Yann, fr, en-4, hi-2, gu-1
  174. Yasu, ja, en-2, de-1
  175. Ymblanter, ru, en-3, de-2, fr-2, nl-2, it-1, es-1
  176. Yuval CT, he, en-3
  177. Zzyzx11, en, es-1, fr-1
  178. علاء, ar, en-4, he-1, es-1 (steward)
  179. Abuse filter, (automated account)
  180. CommonsDelinker, (bot) see request
  181. KrinkleBot, (bot) see request

If 181 is not the last number on this list, there may be an error or there are some users assigned temporarily.

Technical

Administrators are users with the technical ability on Wikimedia Commons to:

  • delete and undelete images and other uploaded files, and to view and restore deleted versions
  • delete and undelete pages, and to view and restore deleted revisions
  • protect and unprotect pages, and to edit admin-protected pages
  • block and unblock users, individual IP addresses and IP address ranges
  • edit less-restricted interface messages (see also Commons:Interface administrators)
  • rename files
  • add and remove user groups
  • configure Upload Wizard campaigns
  • delete and undelete specific log entries and revisions of pages
  • import pages from other wikis
  • merge the history of pages
  • modify abuse filters
  • not create redirects from source pages when moving pages
  • override the spoofing checks and title or username blacklist
  • send a message to multiple users at once (massmessage)
  • use higher limits in API queries

These are collectively known as the admin tools.

Community role

Administrators are experienced and trusted members of the Commons community who have taken on additional maintenance work and have been entrusted with the admin tools by public consensus/vote. Different admins have different areas of interest and expertise, but typical admin tasks include determining and closing deletion requests, deleting copyright violations, undeleting files where necessary, protecting Commons against vandalism, and working on templates and other protected pages. Of course, some of these tasks can be done by non-admins as well.

Administrators are expected to understand the goals of this project, and be prepared to work constructively with others towards those ends. Administrators should also understand and follow Commons' policies, and where appropriate, respect community consensus.

Apart from roles which require use of the admin tools, administrators have no special editorial authority by virtue of their position, and in discussions and public votes their contributions are treated in the same way as any ordinary editor. Some admins may become more influential, not due to their position as such, but from the personal trust they may have gained from the community.

Suggestions for administrators

Please read Commons:Guide to adminship.

Removal of administrator rights

Under the de-admin policy, administrator rights may be revoked due to inactivity or misuse of sysop tools. In a de-admin request, normal standards for determining consensus in an RfA do not apply. Instead, "majority consensus" should be used, whereby any consensus to demote of higher than 50% is sufficient to remove the admin.

Apply to become an administrator

All intending administrators must go through this process and submit themselves to RFA, including all ex-administrators who are seeking to return to their previous role.

First, go to Commons:Administrators/Howto and read the information there. Then come back here and make your request in the section below.

  • If someone else nominated you, please accept the nomination by stating "I accept" or something similar, and signing below the nomination itself. The subpage will still need to be transcluded by you or your nominator.


Use the box below, replacing Username with your username:

Voting

Any registered user may vote here although those who have few or no previous edits may not be fully counted. It is preferable you give reasons for both Support and Oppose votes as this will help the closing bureaucrat in their decision. Greater weight is given to an argument, with supporting evidence if needed, than to a simple vote.

Promotion normally requires at least 75% in favour, with a minimum of 8 support votes. Votes from unregistered users are not counted. However, the closing bureaucrat has discretion in judging community consensus, and the decision will not necessarily be based on the raw numbers. Bureaucrats may, at their discretion, extend the period of an RfA if they feel that it will be helpful in better determining community consensus.

 Neutral comments are not counted in the vote totals for the purposes of calculating pass/fail percentages. However, such comments are part of the discussion, may persuade others, and contribute to the closing bureaucrat's understanding of community consensus.

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Requests for adminship

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When complete, pages listed here should be archived to Commons:Administrators/Archive.

  • Please read Commons:Administrators before voting here. Any logged in user may vote although those who have few or no previous edits may not be fully counted.

Gnom

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Gnom (talk · contributions (views) · deleted user contributions · recent activity (talk · project · deletion requests) · logs · block log · global contribs · CentralAuth)
Scheduled to end: 19:28, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

Hello again – after narrowly missing the threshold in my last request for adminship in November 2023 (with 74% approval), I thought I could ask again, now that more than a year has passed and the community has had the opportunity to see some more activity from me in the areas where I would most like to be active as an admin, which is copyright-related deletion requests.

In January, some of you maybe read my blog post for Public Domain Day 2025, which discussed the tricky copyright situation around artworks by the two famous painters Frida Kahlo and Henri Matisse. Another recent project of mine that I am very excited about, albeit still in an early stage (and not admin-related), is the upload of over 2,000 recordings of organ music.

Seeing the many unsuccessful requests for Commons adminship over the last months, I must confess that I am publishing this request somewhat anxiously – but I sincerely think that I could be of help to the community with my experience as a copyright lawyer and long-time community member, and a few of the people who did not support my last request have already indicated that they would do so this time.

You can find more information about me on my user page as well as in my last request for adminship. Happy to also answer any questions you may have.

Votes

 Neutral per marcus, i wanna be neutral. sorry.modern_primat ඞඞඞ ----TALK 16:19, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

Requests for bureaucratship

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When complete, pages listed here should be archived to Commons:Bureaucrats/Archive.

  • Please read Commons:Bureaucrats before posting or voting here. Any logged in user may vote although those who have few or no previous edits may not be fully counted.

No current requests.

Requests for CheckUser rights

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When complete, pages listed here should be archived to Commons:Checkusers/Archive.

  • Please read Commons:Checkusers before posting or voting here. Any logged in user may vote although those who have few or no previous edits may not be fully counted.

Yann

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Yann (talk · contributions (views) · deleted user contributions · recent activity (talk · project · deletion requests) · logs · block log · global contribs · CentralAuth)

Scheduled to end: 06:02, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

Dear community,

today I would like to nominate Yann to be the next checkuser for Commons.

It appears that the most active CU for the last years, Elcobbola, is currently inactive, and I have the impression that there is some need for more hands. Per my personal perception Yann is currently the most active admin in CU releated areas. They have been CU already from 2007 to 2009, and appear to be consistently active in the last two years.

Yann has agreed in private to accept the nomination.

Thank you, yours, --Krd 06:02, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot Krd for this nomination. I accept it again, and I would be glad if I could help. Yann (talk) 11:02, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Votes

Comments

In both cases, the candidate addressed some of the underlying deletion/undeletion issues but failed to acknowledge any communication issues. Even worse, in the first discussion, the candidate said:
Big LOL. This is supposed to be a joke, but your sense of humor is quite obviously lacking... Do you have anything serious to say? Otherwise, please stop wasting my time and others'.
It is the second case that I find particularly concerning, since the community depends on checkusers to carefully analyze very non-public information and carefully communicate their conclusions. I was tempted to vote oppose on that basis, but I want to see more discussion first. Brianjd (talk) 15:07, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The candidate did say that, and I still find it concerning, but it might be taken out of context. Or not. I’m too tired to decide. Brianjd (talk) 15:11, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Honestly, in my more than 20 years on Commons, that's the weirdest complain I have ever seen against anybody. OK, I got that someone didn't like my little joke on my talk page, but reproaching me that in relation to my work as admin or check user, sorry, but I don't understand. For those you might want to know the context, File:God is busy.jpg was on a T-shirt in India, and I find it funny, even more today than when I took the picture. In our world falling apart in every ways, God is probably busy fixing all problems, so They can't bother with the little problems of our community. Yann (talk) 17:33, 18 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
You deserve credit for participating in this discussion, and for clarifying the meaning of my struck out quote.
But your response also clarifies something else: you insist on continuing your petty dispute with Andy Dingley, while ignoring the real issues here. Brianjd (talk) 03:25, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
FWIW, Andy Dingley made the negative comment you linked above, but I don't have any issue with Andy, so I don't understand why they were so aggressive. Yann (talk) 08:58, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Andy Dingley made the negative comment you linked above I linked directly to the diff by you, with your signature. Brianjd (talk) 09:40, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@Brianjd: Just to understand, what are you complaining about exactly? The erroneous closure of File:Mirror Selfie of erect penis with removed pubic hair.jpg, which I reverted? Or the disagreement about File:Indy Fuel new logo.png, which I undeleted and created a regular DR? FYI, the DR is still open, and for good reason: the outcome is far from obvious. Or File:God is busy.jpg on my talk page? Yann (talk) 11:58, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I thought my unresolved complaints were clear. Here is a summary of those complaints, which you have not addressed (or even acknowledged) at all:
  • Per my contribution to the ‘unacceptable threats’ section, you gave an unnecessary ‘last warning’ to a new user who had already improved their behavior after previous warnings. (That section also raises other serious issues that you have not acknowledged either. One of those issues is an unjustified accusation of incivility together with an unjustified threat of a block, both made towards a fellow admin! I have not looked at the other issues closely.)
  • Per the subsequent section about the erroneously closed undeletion request, you falsely implied that I had knowingly requested undeletion of a recent naked picture of a minor.
  • Per the comments above, you seem to have falsely attributed your own negative comment to Andy.
Also, the fact that you have not even acknowledged the complaints described above is itself one of my complaints. Brianjd (talk) 13:00, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Just to be clear, I don’t give a damn about this ‘God is busy’ thing. I didn’t realize that my struck out quote was actually about that. (I would be more worried about the template {{Busy}} at the top of your talk page, but actually, you do respond swiftly to most queries, to the extent that you respond at all. So that is one good thing I can say about you.) Brianjd (talk) 13:06, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I think there is a lot of misunderstanding here. I mistaken read "Minor" for "Mirror". I am sorry that you thought that I had accused you of anything.
When I talked about negative comments by Andy Dingley , I mean the ones they made there. I didn't attribute my comment to Andy.
Leyo said that I threatened them linking this. I don't see any threat there. OK, I deleted this file shortly after tagging it. A regular DR would have been better, but I still think it is too complex to be on Commons without a VRT permission.
I tagged File:Finnischer Eishockeyverband logo.svg with missing permission, and the DR created by Andy Dingley is still open. The Squirrel Conspiracy also thinks that is should be deleted. Yann (talk) 13:34, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
In view of all this, it seems to me that the complain raised by Leyo here lacks substance. In addition, the complain by Andy of the same page (which includes the ‘God is busy’ thing) looks like a bad faith attempt to criticize me.
I am always ready to apologize and/or revert my actions when necessary. I am more aware than anybody that, on a multilingual and multicultural project like Commons, some misunderstandings and disagreements can ready become big conflicts. Regards, Yann (talk) 13:34, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Regarding the undeletion request, I appreciate the belated apology.
Regarding Andy, I linked to the discussion as a whole, then later linked to your comment specifically. When you referred to my link, you were not clear about which one. So yes, there was some misunderstanding. I don’t think that was anyone’s fault.
Regarding the threat to Leyo, I accidentally linked to the revision prior to the correct one. The correct revision was Special:Diff/987704578, where you threatened Leyo, a fellow admin, with a block. Anyway, the correct link was already provided at the ‘unacceptable threats’ discussion.
Regarding the two files whose copyright status is in dispute, I have not looked at them closely, so I currently have no specific comment. I note that files that are considered copyright violations are often deleted immediately, regardless of tags or even discussions. I also note that these two files form context for the next issue.
Regarding the ‘last warning’ to Xgeorg, do you have any comment?
You have not acknowledged my complaint about the ‘last warning’ to Omar.idma. Brianjd (talk) 14:14, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
  • This is not a major issue in itself, but since we are digging up a lot of old discussions here, it would help if you maintained your talk page archives correctly. Your archive links only go up to archive 61, but you now have 63 archives. Brianjd (talk) 13:30, 19 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requests for Oversight rights

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When complete, pages listed here should be archived to Commons:Oversighters/Archive.

  • Please read Commons:Oversighters before voting here. Any logged in user may vote, although those who have few or no previous edits may not be fully counted.

No current requests.

See also

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