I think that admin or administrator is better then sysop because more  
people know the word "administrator" then "sysop". I think that the  
developers should get rid of "sysop" from every part of Mediawiki and  
replace it with "Administrator". That's just my opinion.

Techman224

On 31-Dec-08, at 3:19 PM, MZMcBride wrote:

> There's been a bit of recent discussion about deprecating the term  
> 'sysop'
> throughout MediaWiki by replacing it with 'admin' or 'administrator'.
>
> The primary advantage here would be that 'admin' or 'administrator'  
> is more
> clear and better defines the role that these users play within a  
> wiki. See
> also related bug: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16737
>
> There are a number of different places that 'sysop' is used  
> throughout the
> software, and it may or may not be advantageous to change all of  
> them (for
> example inside the user_groups table). On the other hand, however,  
> changing
> only some of the software while not changing other parts may simply  
> lead to
> more confusion.
>
> Thoughts on the idea in general? Thoughts on the details?
>
> MZMcBride
> [email protected]
>
>
>
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