The sysop flag carries with it the notion of administrator to much. I think it would be beneficial to create a flag with basically the same powers as the sysop flag but meant for people that aren't considered local administrators.
Giving an outside person sysop-like powers without considering them an administrator can be helpful often. For example, Charitwo has been very helpful on the Narutopedia in getting rid of spam and vandalism, and made use of sysop powers on many occasions. However he is in no way a local admin, or even a local community member. For that reason we had to have the sysop flag removed so that he wouldn't show up in the greeting signatures after making cleanup edits causing new users to ask a non-community member for wiki specific help. Likewise there have been many cases in the past where a wiki has asked me to helpout with something that required sysop powers, as well as various animanga wiki I ended up with the sysop flag on. As a side effect it caused confusion making it look like I was admin on dozens of wiki abandoned by the founders that gave me the flag, despite the wiki's actually being open for adoption. In these kind of cases it would definitely be helpful to have a sysop-like flag that doesn't carry the notion of administrator with it. Perhaps as a bonus, this flag can be one that bureaucrats can remove from someone, and people can remove the flag from themselves as well (resign). That way it could in a way be considered something like a temp-sysop and people wouldn't need to worry so much about giving it out in cases like a wiki getting a random crapflood from one of the many useless groups on the net. -- ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) _______________________________________________ Wikia Community Mailing List. For information and subscriptions see http://lists.wikia.com/mailman/listinfo/wikia-l Need staff help? Try http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contact
