Bharatpedia administrators

On Bharatpedia, trusted users may be appointed as administrators (also referred to as admins, sysops or janitors),{ following a successful request for adminship. As of June 2025, there are 5 administrators on the Bharatpedia. Administrators have additional technical privileges compared with other editors.

On Bharatpedia, becoming an administrator is often referred to as being "given [or taking up] the mop", a term which has also been used elsewhere.

Requests for adminship

While the first Bharatpedia administrators were appointed by its founder in August 2020, administrator privileges on Bharatpedia 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. Candidacy for the role is normally considered only after "extensive work on the Bharatpedia". While any editor may vote in an RfA, the outcome is not determined by a majority vote, but rather by whether consensus has been reached that the candidate would make a good administrator, a decision that can only be made by a bureaucrat, a Bharatpedia editor who is also appointed by the community through a "request" process, though the process is much stricter for them than for administrators.

Role

Once granted administrator privileges, a user has access to additional functions in order to perform certain duties. These include "messy cleanup work", deletion of articles deemed unsuitable, protecting pages (restricting editing privileges to that page), and blocking the accounts of disruptive users. Blocking a user must be done according to Bharatpedia's policies and a reason must be stated for the block, which will be permanently logged by the software. Use of this privilege to "gain editing advantages" is considered inappropriate.