Wikipedia:Administrative service awards

Administrative service awards are for admins what our service awards are for Wikipedians, generally; that is, a gamification mechanism to reward the self instead of getting recognition from others. These awards focus specifically on administrative actions using "the tools" as compared to mere edits done while an elected admin.

Please remember that neither the number of administrative actions nor the length of time from when "awarded the mop" is a good indicator of the quality of an administrator's actions or diplomatic ability. Hence, these service awards do not indicate any level of authority whatsoever; "master" administrators are not bestowed with more authority through this award than "novice" administrators.

Award levels

Overview

There are currently 20 award levels.

For the sake of variety, three badge variants will someday be provided for each level: a medal, a mop, and a ribbon (thanks to Wikipedia:Ribbons). Administrators may display the badge of their preference, a combination of badges, or none at all.

To learn your administrative action count, see User:JamesR/AdminStats.

Requirements

The following table lists the requirements for each award level. Both lengths of time and the total number of actions must be met for each award level.

°	Award	Alternative Award	Minimum number of administrative actions	Period
1	New Administrator	Duster	1	1 day
2	Novice Administrator	Rookie Janitor	10	1 month
3	Apprentice Administrator	Apprentice Janitor	100	3 months
4	Journeyman Administrator	Advanced Apprentice Janitor	200	6 months
5	Yeoman Administrator	Certified Janitor	350	1 year
6	Experienced Administrator	Experienced Janitor	500	1.5 years
7	Veteran Administrator	Master Janitor	800	2 years
8	Veteran Administrator II	Grand Master Janitor	1,200	2.5 years
9	Veteran Administrator III	Great Grand Master Janitor	1,800	3 years
10	Veteran Administrator IV	Janitor of the Encyclopedia	2,600	3.5 years
11	Senior Administrator	Master Janitor of the Encyclopedia	3,500	4 years
12	Senior Administrator II	Grand Janitor of the Encyclopedia	4,500	4.5 years
13	Senior Administrator III	Great Grand Janitor of the Encyclopedia	5,700	5 years
14	Master Administrator	Supreme Janitor of the Encyclopedia	7,000	6 years
15	Master Administrator II	Custodian of the Cabal	9,000	7 years
16	Master Administrator III	Master Custodian of the Cabal	12,000	8 years
17	Master Administrator IV	Grand Custodian of the Cabal	17,000	10 years
18	Grandmaster Administrator	Great Grand Custodian of the Cabal	27,000	12 years
19	Grandmaster Administrator First-Class	Supreme Custodian of the Cabal	42,000	14 years
20	Vanguard Administrator	Quantum Custodian	62,000	16 years

Exposition on the requirements

Rationale for the requirements

The administrative action count requirements for the levels are based on what, in the opinion of the administrators who formulated the requirements, could be achieved by a human administrator working with considerable regularity and diligence using the default tools and a fairly typical administrative action pattern. The awards for the first two years require a considerably lower administrative action rate than those for the later years.

Bots and administrators using certain tools or administrative action patterns may achieve higher rates, while administrators using certain administrative action patterns (such as mainly posting completed articles with a single action and so forth) may have lower rates, and of course administrators who don't perform actions regularly may have lower rates.

Thus not all administrators will see a good match between service time and administrative action counts (some administrators may be eligible for a high level by service time but not by administrative action count, while other administrators may be eligible for a high level by administrative action count, but not by service time). This is an imperfection which is an inherent consequence of the decision to use an uncomplicated system for determining eligibility for each award.

Images, userboxes, and top icons

You can place the {{Admin service awards}} template on your user page to show the image, userbox, or top icon most appropriate for your time of service and count of administrative actions. You must include |year=, |month=, and |day= parameters specifying the date you passed RFA, as well as your count of administrative actions performed using the |actions= parameter, and update these each time your edits pass one of the service award levels. The |format= parameter can be used to specify the display format. See the template's documentation for details.

You can also choose to simply display an award from the following table: Wikipedia:Administrative service awards/Table

See also

• Wikipedia:Awards
• Wikipedia:Barnstars
• Wikipedia:Service awards
• Wikipedia:Incremental service awards (Ribbons)
• Wikipedia:Ribbons
• Wikipedia:Ten Year Society
• Wikipedia:Fifteen Year Society
• Wikipedia:Userboxes
• Wikipedia:Wikipedians
• {{Service award progress}}, a template for showing one's progress toward the next level