[Wikipedia-l] Re: Admin privileges

[Magnus Manske]

Sysop he is ;-)

Daniel Mayer wrote:

>On Wednesday 23 October 2002 12:01 pm, wikipedia-l-request at nupedia.com wrote:
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>>So I think I will have to do so. I always resisted becoming an
>>admin since admin privileges are always combined with admin duties,
>>but since maveric is not the first to complain that I always list
>>even the most stupid pages on [[Wikipedia:Votes for deletion]]
>>instead of deleting them myself, I think I should take this burden.
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>>I promise not to delete any page that has similarities with an=20
>>article without prior discussion on the above page.
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>>Best regards,
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>>JeLuF
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>Speaking of which, what is the status of making a user rights promotion 
>interface available to Admins again? I remember somebody else asking for 
>Admin privileges before and I don't think anybody followed-up on it. 
>Wikipedia is growing so fast that we need more people like JeLuF to be Admins 
>and there currently is a bottleneck at the developer/Jimbo level. 
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>IMO somebody should be able to simply ask the list for Admin privileges and 
>then if a current Admin agrees then that Admin should be able to go ahead and 
>do the promotion so long as nobody else disagrees.  
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>-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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