"Remember the dot" rememberthedot@gmail.com wrote in message news:17aa57b60812311420t3b3f548dj58ca1b6c992c4ee2@mail.gmail.com...
For what it's worth, I agree that the term "administrator" should be consistently used in MediaWiki instead of using both "administrator" and "sysop".
I agree. To me, a wiki administrator is someone with full privileges on the wiki, and a sysop is someone with server privileges who can do all the technical back-end bits e.g. installing extensions, running maintenance scripts, modifying LocalSettings.php, etc. Using sysop within the software implies more powers than are actually available, at least it does to me.
In software I have developed, we tend to use sysadmin and techadmin to differentiate the two.
- Mark Clements (HappyDog).