I think that admin or administrator is better then sysop because more
people know the word "administrator" then "sysop". I think that the
developers should get rid of "sysop" from every part of Mediawiki and
replace it with "Administrator". That's just my opinion.
Techman224
On 31-Dec-08, at 3:19 PM, MZMcBride wrote:
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
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