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On the Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia, trusted users may be appointed as administrators (also known as admins, sysops, and janitors), following a successful request for adminship. There are administrators on the English Wikipedia (as of ). Administrators have additional technical privileges compared to other editors. On Wikipedia, becoming an admin is often referred to as being "given (taking up ) the mop",〔 a term which has also been used elsewhere. In 2006, ''The New York Times'' reported that administrators on Wikipedia, of whom there were then about 1,000, were "geographically diverse". In July 2012, it was widely reported that Wikipedia was "running out of administrators", because in 2005 and 2006, 40 to 50 people were often appointed administrators each month, but in the first half of 2012, only nine in total were appointed.〔〔Further coverage: * * * 〕 However, Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia's co-founder, denied that this was a crisis or that Wikipedia was running out of admins, saying, "The number of admins has been stable for about two years, there's really nothing going on." Wales had previously (in a message sent to the English Wikipedia mailing list on February 11, 2003) stated that being an admin is "not a big deal", and that "It's merely a technical matter that the powers given to sysops are not given out to everyone." In his book ''Wikipedia – The Missing Manual'', John Broughton states that while many people think of administrators on Wikipedia as judges, that is not the purpose of the role. Instead, he says, admins usually "delete pages" and "protect pages involved in edit wars". ==Requests for adminship== While the first Wikipedia administrators were appointed by Jimmy Wales himself in October 2001, administrator privileges on Wikipedia are now granted through a process known as requests for adminship (RFA).〔 Any registered editor may nominate themselves, or may request another editor to do so. The process has been said to be "akin to putting someone through the Supreme Court" by Andrew Lih, a scientist and professor who is himself an administrator on the English Wikipedia. Lih also said, "It's pretty much a hazing ritual at this point", in contrast to how the process worked early in Wikipedia's history, when all one had to do to become an admin was "prove you weren't a bozo".〔 Candidacy for the role is normally considered only after "extensive work on the wiki".〔 While any editor may vote in an RFA, the outcome is not determined by a majority vote, but rather by whether or not consensus has been reached that the candidate would make a good administrator, a decision which can only be made by a bureaucrat, a Wikipedia editor who is also appointed by the community through a "request" process, though the process is much stricter for them than for administrators. This may have been implemented as a result of RFAs attracting increasing levels of attention: Stvilia et al. quoted that "Prior to mid-2005, RFAs typically did not attract much attention. Since then, it has become quite common for RFAs to attract huge numbers of RFA groupies who all support one another."〔(User talk:Tony Sidaway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ), 22 September 2006〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wikipedia administrators」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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