On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 22:31, Erik Moeller wrote:
I would like to request developer rights on the
English Wikipedia. This
would allow me to execute write-access queries on the database, and as
such, to grant sysop privileges to other users. I would like to help with
the sysopping, which seems to be right now only done by a couple of
people. Since I read wikien-l daily and intend to continue to do so, I
usually catch sysop requests on time, but can currently do nothing about
them.
I am one of the developers (which does not automatically mean Wikipedia DB
access) and currently a regular sysop.
Seconded. Erik has contributed useful code to the project and
demonstrated responsibility.
I'd also like to remind people of proposals mentioned at:
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_details_special_page
whereby the sysop process could be better automated by a nomination /
confirmation system. Something like:
* anybody (or perhaps any sysop) could nominate a user for sysophood
* the nomination would be displayed in a prominent log page of some sort
* after a delay of a couple or a few days, that user automatically
becomes a sysop
* IF AND ONLY IF at least one other sysop seconds the nomination
* UNLESS any sysop (or perhaps any user) rejects the nomination during
the waiting period
It's very clumsy to require manual database mucking to deal with common
user account stuff, and creates delays when the small number of
developers are busy or difficult to communicate with. As much as
possible, a wiki community should be able to run itself.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)