I have tried to read the endless posts to the Wikilists, but perhaps I missed something. On Mr. Crocker's test site, did we decide to show on the Users page, that certain members are "editors," and "sysops?" And, if so, what is a "editor?"
That's just my impression of the better names for what we now call "sysop" and "developer"--and those can be changed to whatever we decide on when we have an actual policy on the matter.
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. 0
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.
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