A [name omitted for privacy reasons] wrote:
*By the powers vested in me by the Wikipedia power structure, I *hereby declare those changes to be de facto official, subject of *course to overruling by other sysops *Is this implying that sysops *have special powers in regards to the formulation of policy, I *thought they were no better than the rest of us...
Adam is right of course. I don't know who he is quoting, and maybe that was only a joke, but sysop is always and everywhere supposed to be a purely technical matter, not a position of authority and power of any kind.
I think maybe I need to say that a lot more often, eh?
And maybe we need to focus on what technical changes could be made to reduce the differences between sysops and ordinary signed-in-users.
--Jimbo