Thomas R. Koll wrote:
Toby Bartels wrote:
>I'm not saying that I oppose your idea
completely.
>But in the case of the experienced user on [[de:]], I would suggest
>that this user be given back ''all'' sysop rights, but only
''use'' SQL.
>Perhaps this is a problem for some reason -- maybe other Wikipedians
>complained about this user as a sysop?
But he doesn't want to be a full sysop, don't
know his excact reasons.
He was but gave his rights back a few months ago.
Many Wikipedians (mostly in places other than this mailing list)
are concerned about hierarchy and levels of access/power/authority,
so it will be controversial to make the hierarchy more complicated.
Also it's a Bad Thing in general to complicate code more than necessary.
So my impulse is still to tell this guy «We don't mind if you're a sysop
and you only use your SQL powers, and it's painless, so just do that.».
But if there is a real need to complicate the hierarchy and the code ...
well, I won't make any more fuss about it.
-- Toby
>(By the way, you didn't answer my questions.
>That's OK, as long as you know that you didn't answer them! ^_^)
(Uhh, what was the question again?)
They were:
>>>What is "the sysop-job"?
and:
>>>Do sysops on [[de:]] have to do chores?
It may be best just to go back to the original for context:
<http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2004-January/007609.html>.
(And it's OK to ignore these specific questions now that we've gone on,
unless you think think that they're still relevant.
So this whole thing is a digression. ^_^)