how could I become a system administrator?
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Daniel Ehrenberg wrote:
how could I become a system administrator?
It's basically "shall issue" to anyone that we've known for any length of time. The only reason it's restricted at all is that there are some irreversible and hard-to-reverse things that you could do, and so it's dangerous to give those powers to random passerby.
Two things that we need to resist are (a) the idea that sysops have more authority than anyone else in editing pages and (b) ALL use of sysop powers "in a fight" about the content of a page.
I wish we had a lot more sysops, so that we could partly demystify the position.
--Jimbo
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Jimmy Wales wrote:
I wish we had a lot more sysops, so that we could partly demystify the position.
Oh, well, in that case... I hereby request sysop status. :)
Camembert suggested on the first of March that I should become a sysop, although I have no idea how closely he had been monitoring my behaviour in order to judge the wisdom of such a suggestion...
I may have done a few *slightly* silly things on the Wikipedia (see e.g. my defence of [[Ben Hajioff]]), but I promise that I would never turn into a power-crazed maniac, or anything like that. :)
Oliver
+-------------------------------------------+ | Oliver Pereira | | Dept. of Electronics and Computer Science | | University of Southampton | | omp199@ecs.soton.ac.uk | +-------------------------------------------+
Oliver Pereira wrote:
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Jimmy Wales wrote:
I wish we had a lot more sysops, so that we could partly demystify the position.
Oh, well, in that case... I hereby request sysop status. :)
Camembert suggested on the first of March that I should become a sysop, although I have no idea how closely he had been monitoring my behaviour in order to judge the wisdom of such a suggestion...
Maybe he was just anticipating the ides at the end of next week. :-)
Ec.