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?
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