[Wikipedia-l] Re: Wikisource

Fri Feb 6 13:12:18 UTC 2004

Daniel Mayer wrote:
> Ec wrote:
> >..
> >Mav has been around this Wiki World a little longer than I,
> >and has gone to the expense of protecting the wikisource.org
> >domain name.
>
> Thanks Ec. And wikisource.org is currently forwarded to Wikisource's temp
url.
>
> >His willingness to be a Wikisource sysop should
> >be all that is required there.
>
> Same for Ec. The fact that both Ec and I are admins on other wikis is all
the
> justification needed for immediate promotion upon asking on a new, small
wiki.

Fine by me, both of you are now sysops.

> But I think a major bottleneck is developing at the developer level in
this
> area. Phase II had an interface for Admin's to promote/demote any user - I
> liked that. If this were reimplemented it would save the developers a lot
of
> time doing this themselves and save the wikis time waiting for approved
> candidates to be sysoped.

See my post on "bureaucrat access".

-- Tim Starling