"Remember the dot" <rememberthedot(a)gmail.com> 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).