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From the village pump 4th Feburary 2004

I stumbled over this at special:Specialpages... is there anyone with this access yet? Or is it a new thing? Just curious. Pakaran. 03:58, 3 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I dont know what you mean. Sennheiser 04:01, 3 Feb 2004 (UTC)
It says that "sysops with bureaucrat access" can promote other users to sysop. Pakaran. 04:15, 3 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Oh, you mean Special:Makesysop. No idea where that came from, never heard of it before. Using the term "bureaucrat" suggests that it's either a non-native speaker or someone trying to be funny. -- Tim Starling 04:26, Feb 3, 2004 (UTC)
Disabled for now. -- Tim Starling 04:32, Feb 3, 2004 (UTC)
As you may not be aware if you don't work on the software, activating sysop accounts currently requires manually mucking about in the database. It's a big pain in the butt, and dangerous in that there's always the potential for making a mistake that wipes out all accounts (oops). This is just putting the sysop-activation into the wiki interface where it can be done easily and safely, and won't require pestering a small group of developers for every admin action on each of 100+ wikis. We picked the name "bureaucrat" because it sounded unattractive, no one will want to fight over it. ;)


There so far are no bureaucrats. --Brion 01:13, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)
On En, I would have no problem if it were given to the 2-3 developers who currently do promotions, to make their lives easier. On the bigger non-En wikis, why not give it to the 2-3 most active sysops, again to make their lives easier? Pakaran. 16:28, 4 Feb 2004 (UTC)
Agree with the above. Good call. →Raul654 12:35, Feb 6, 2004 (UTC)

From above:

"We picked the name "bureaucrat" because it sounded unattractive, no one will want to fight over it. ;)"

Well, not unless they are Michael Swanwick fans... (sorry, obscure joke. Check out Stations of the Tide sometime.) -- Jussi-Ville Heiskanen 22:53, Feb 6, 2004 (UTC)