Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-28390278-20150817023716/@comment-24577221-20150817041000

I'm not an admin here, though I have been elsewhere.

Bottom line: the admin does whatever's necessary to keep things running smoothly, and ideally as little as possible of that. Cleaning up messes, when people can't be persuaded to do so themselves. (That includes reverting bad edits, for example.)  Trying to get people to behave themselves, by diplomacy if possible, and by more forceful means (e.g. temporary or permanent banning) if necessary. Most of the actual editing of the wiki should be done by "regular" people. The admin has access to some extra tools and options, to do things like locking pages so they can't be edited -- the wiki's main page is an example of a locked page, because of the trouble that could be caused if random people started messing around with it.