On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Menchi Zh-En WP wrote:
Discussions between existing contributors led to the recommendation of the following five candidates, who, based on their past actions and communications, are all deemed responsible, objective, and therefore qualified to be Wikipedia administrators:
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- Formulax
- Lorenzarius
- Menchi
- Samuel
- Shizhao
...are now sysops on zh.wikipedia.org.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)