On Saturday 10 May 2003 05:00 am, wikien-l-request@wikipedia.org 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.

Regards,

Erik (User:Eloquence)

I for one trust you - but I guess this is a call for the developers to make.

-- mav