On 4/28/05, Karl Wick karlwick@gmail.com wrote:
I'm trying to give someone sysop permission on the en.wikibooks.org site and it tells me that I don't have permission to do it ...
The English Wikibooks has its own bureaucrats, so this is not something a steward should normally be dealing with. Is there a reason those people can't do it? If so, it may be better to find some more bureaucrat candidates for that wiki instead.
I went to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Makesysop and then to http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Special:Makesysop and it tells me "The action you have requested can only be performed by users with "sysop" status." I'm supposedly at that status and well beyond.
You can't use Special:Makesysop at Wikibooks because you are not a bureaucrat on that wiki. You can only use the version at Meta.
BTW the instructions on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards seem kind of ambiguous. To make BillPeet an admin on the English WikiBooks I would type in "BillPeet@enwikibookssysop"
No, you should type BillPeet@enwikibooks in the first field and sysop in the second field.
See also http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bureaucrat
Angela.