[Wikipedia-l] Re: Bureaucrat on French Wikipedia

Tue Feb 24 04:07:31 UTC 2004

Ray Saintonge wrote:
> Guillaume Blanchard wrote:
> 
>> From: "Nicolas Weeger" <nweeger at noos.fr>
>>
>>> Guillaume Blanchard a rit :
>>>
>>>> You created a statu of bureaucrat so Wikipedias are not any more 
>>>> need to
>>>> request the developers to ratify the vote of the new administrators, 
>>>> but the
>>>>
>>>> only user who has this statu on French Wikipia is a user that don't 
>>>> taking
>>>>
>>>> part in French Wikipedia and who don't speak French. Can you make some
>>>> French-speaking bureaucrats?
>>>>
>>> Unless i'm mistaking, any sysop can make other users sysop.
>>> Bureaucrat kind of disappeared :)
>>>
>>
>> On French Wikipedia, sysop get a message "you need bureaucrat statu" when
>> trying to acces the "Turn a user into a sysop" page.
>>
> I tried to promote someone at Wikisource and got the same message.

I tried to set it up so that any sysop could do it, but Erik reverted it 
back to the bureaucrat scheme.

-- Tim Starling