[Wikipedia-l] Re: sysop vs. admin

Wed Oct 27 22:19:14 UTC 2004

Sysops are low level general purpose administrators of the wiki. They have
nothing to do with administration of the hardware or software. There are
higher levels of adminitration.

Fred

> From: Ashar Voultoiz <hashar at altern.org>
> Reply-To: wikipedia-l at Wikimedia.org
> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 23:53:37 +0200
> To: wikipedia-l at wikipedia.org
> Subject: [Wikipedia-l] Re: sysop vs. admin
> 
> NSK wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> What are the differences between the terms "sysop" and "admin" and which one
>> do you think is better and why?
> 
> Don't you have a dictionary ?
> In which way does your question relate to wikipedia project ?
> 
> 
> Administrator:
> Some one who direct and manage an organisation, a community.
> 
> Sysop:
> Means "SYStem OPerator" an administrator of a computer service, be it
> a server, a forum or a wiki.
> 
> Basicly administrator is used widely, whereas sysop is almost only used
> in the computer field.
> 
> See also:
> http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Administrator
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sysop
> 
> 
> -- 
> Ashar Voultoiz - WP++++
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hashar
> 
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