There's been a bit of recent discussion about deprecating the term 'sysop'
throughout MediaWiki by replacing it with 'admin' or 'administrator'.
The primary advantage here would be that 'admin' or 'administrator' is
more
clear and better defines the role that these users play within a wiki. See
also related bug:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16737
There are a number of different places that 'sysop' is used throughout the
software, and it may or may not be advantageous to change all of them (for
example inside the user_groups table). On the other hand, however, changing
only some of the software while not changing other parts may simply lead to
more confusion.
Thoughts on the idea in general? Thoughts on the details?
MZMcBride
public(a)mzmcbride.com