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] > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
