[Foundation-l] Jimbo's sysadmin flag

Sun May 9 17:59:55 UTC 2010

On 5/9/10 4:10 PM, Woojin Kim wrote:
> I noticed Jimbo has also sysadmin flag recently. The change was about 2
> months ago on enwikiversity.[1] The reason was "need to view deleted
> revisions", but sysadmin group does hold no rights about deleted revisions.
> Instead they have globalgroup[permissions/membership].
>
> Originally, Jimbo doesn't need to have sysadmin flag and doesn't have root
> or shell access. So sysadmin bit should be removed.

I don't think I have the ability to change that, but I'll email the 
stewards and ask them to sort out any remaining details.

(I'll keep my admin bit on en.wikipedia.org - since that's my "home 
project".)

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