On 12 February 2013 09:59, bawolff <[email protected]> wrote: > 9 is still an extremely impressive number. When did sysops get > introduced? I have a feeling that 11 years ago there was no such > thing.
I believe that our first sysops (i.e. accounts with some special status) were in 2002; before that, there was the shared "admin" password for which UseMod prompted you if you wanted to delete something, which was shared with some trusted users. J. -- James D. Forrester [email protected] [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] (speaking purely in a personal capacity) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
