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 paramount regarding the use of abilities entrusted to admins which 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:
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Should already know
- Five pillars of Wikipedia
- Founding principles: Core principles guiding all Wikimedia projects.
General
- Administrators
- Admins' how-to guide
- Admins' noticeboard for general discussion of admin issues
- New admin school
Security
Content policies
Copyright
Blocking
Page protection
Deletion
- Criteria for speedy deletion
- Deletion guidelines for administrators
- Deletion policy
- Deletion process
- Undeletion policy
- Revision deletion policy
Rollback
Requests
- Backlogged processes requiring attention
- Changes related to Wikipedia:Requests for administrator attention
- Enforcement of arbitration rulings
Vandalism
Controversy
Miscellaneous
- Advice for new Administrators
- Editing the main page
- Goals of the Adminship process
- How to fix cut and paste moves
- Image use policy
- MediaWiki Administrator's Handbook
- Office actions
- Open proxies
- What Adminship is not
- Village stocks – some things administrators have done by mistake in the past. Laugh, and avoid repetition.
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