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Revision as of 19:02, 26 January 2003 by Oliver Pereira (talk | contribs) (thanks for the explanation)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Would it be good to have a list of administrators here? Jeronimo
- Yup. -- Tarquin
At first blush, it sounds like a good idea to me. — Toby 09:27 Sep 20, 2002 (UTC)
- You've been blushing a lot lately. ;) --mav
OK - Here is a list of every user. All that is needed is for somebody to search for "sysop" and write down the sysops user name here. --mav
- I can do better than that! Run this query: SELECT CONCAT("*]") from user where user_rights != "" ORDER BY user_name and cut-n-paste. --Brion
Sorry about the inadvertent capitalization of your name, mav. --Ed Poor
- No biggie on the capitalization thing but just be careful not to delete Toby's message next time. --mav
- Actually, I noticed that when I did the Diff in History, and I was putting it back when we got an edit conflict. I was correcting the "m" as well as putting back his message, but you are faster on the draw than I am. --Ed Poor
- Opps! Sorry about that. :) --mav
Hello. Something in one of Eloquence's messages to wikien-l has been confusing me. When he requested temporary sysop status in order to delete some pages, he added, "I've thought about making this possible for non-sysops by changing the code accordingly, but the security risk is too high." Changing the code? Doesn't that involve having "developer" status? He's not indicated as a developer on the Misplaced Pages:Administrators page, and I thought that the Misplaced Pages power hierarchy was a total order, so that all developers were sysops automatically. This is only idle curiosity, but since it is confusing me, I'd be grateful if someone could explain! -- Oliver PEREIRA 17:10 Jan 26, 2003 (UTC)
There are several different kinds of developer status:
- right to commit changes to our CVS server (I do have this right)
- right to directly access (via ssh) our server and alter the files stored there (I do not have this right since I have not asked for it; Brion, Ed, the Bomis folks and a couple of other people do).
- right to run read-only SQL queries using the Misplaced Pages interface; every sysop can do so, so I have this right while I have sysop status.
And no, developers are not automatically sysops. Jimbo has offered me permanent sysop status but I have declined (I prefer to be a non-sysop most of the time in order to better understand how the Misplaced Pages workflow can be optimized). --Eloquence 17:29 Jan 26, 2003 (UTC)
Okay, thanks for the explanation! It seems that the power hierarchy is even more complicated than I thought. Ah well, never mind... -- Oliver PEREIRA 19:02 Jan 26, 2003 (UTC)