On 6/1/02 6:52 PM, "lcrocker@nupedia.com" lcrocker@nupedia.com wrote:
We need some status for a generally well-known member of the group who we trust to make content choices like editing protected pages, temporarily banning vandals, deleting pages, and so on. We also need a status for more dangerous things like database queries and other maintenance tasks. The current software calls these "sysop" and "developer", but I think "editor" and "sysop" makes more sense. Developers will probably have logins to the server and direct database access, so they don't need any rights the software knows about--they exist outside the software.
"Editor" is a bad name, because everyone is an editor, and should be considered as such. I've already expressed my views on the need for sysops etc.