Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-17034183-20130927185532/@comment-4189499-20130927195034

The main job of an admin on a wiki is to help maintain order. For example, if a vandal is messing up pages or a user is blatantly defying rules, you can block them for a length if time to prevent them from editing by going to their contributions page and following the link which says block. Also, if somebody is breaking the rules of the wiki chat (eg using innapripriate language, attacking other users, or any other thing which is considered bad behaviour), they can be kicked off of chat so they can't participate in the conversations anymore, although they can still edit the rest of the wiki. Admins can also protect pages which are heavily vandalised (do this in the drop down beside the edit button) and can delete pages which are unwanted (because the title is misspelled, the page is a duplicate, or it was created by vandals. Page deletion can also be achieved through the edit menu drop down). Other things admins can do are move pages without leaving redirects and edit the wiki's CSS, JS and MediaWiki pages. I would recommend checking up on your wiki as much as you can if you are an admin, and make sure you can easily be contacted by your users in the event of an emergency such as a really bad vandal. Another thing which I think an admin should always keep an eye on is the forums, as an admin should listen to the community and help them in whatever way possible. Hope this helps!