"Remember the dot" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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> For what it's worth, I agree that the term "administrator" should be
> consistently used in MediaWiki instead of using both "administrator" and
> "sysop".
>

I agree.  To me, a wiki administrator is someone with full privileges on the 
wiki, and a sysop is someone with server privileges who can do all the 
technical back-end bits e.g. installing extensions, running maintenance 
scripts, modifying LocalSettings.php, etc.  Using sysop within the software 
implies more powers than are actually available, at least it does to me.

In software I have developed, we tend to use sysadmin and techadmin to 
differentiate the two.

- Mark Clements (HappyDog). 



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