On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 4:16 AM, Pedro Sanchez pdsanchez@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 8:32 PM, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
While the list below may seem impressive, most of them are already available to sysops
Use higher limits in api queries? yes edit semiprotected pages? yes Have own edits marked as patrolled? yes Block other users from editing? yes Block a user from sending email? yes
So again, MOST of these rights are already available to sysops and they aren't "NEW" rights. It's just that they can now be fine-grained controlled (instead of granting sysop which would grant most here)
Reason I tell you this is because your mail sounds a bit alarmist as in "look how many powers we got!" and truth is, we could already exercise them (by manually +sysop) and also were being exercised by pretty much any sysop on any wiki
So not much is changed here regarding what stewards can access, just how easily available are them
Thanks for the addition! Of course, I didn't intend to make an alarm.
And thanks for the detailed information from the next email.