In general, a sysop is a person who oversees the operation of a server, typically in a large computer system. Usage of the term became popular in the late 1980s and 1990s, originally in …

Administrators, commonly known as admins or sysops (system operators), are Wikipedia editors who have been granted the technical ability to perform certain special actions on the English …

Feb 3, 2025 · By default MediaWiki provides extra functionality to a group of trusted users called 'sysops' (or known more generally as 'administrators'). Most of the time this should go largely …

Wikis are often set up to be freely and openly editable. This means anyone can edit the pages, often without even registering/logging in. This is only possible because wikis offer a unique …

Dec 31, 2024 · createAndPromote.php is a maintenance script that creates a new user or modifies an existing user. For the corresponding user, the script can then grant additional …

When a wiki is first set up, an initial account is created: by default it's called “WikiSysop”. This account initially belongs to both the “sysops” and “bureaucrats” group, so anyone logged in as …

Chris's messages were most often posted on WikiSysop's talk page, and vice versa. This correspondence gives valuable insight in the mind of Chris, especially in that part of it dealing …

Jan 30, 2024 · Keeping yourself enthusiastic, optimistic, and uncritical can be extremely difficult to achieve, even on small wikis. Completion status: this resource is ~25% complete. This course …

MediaWiki is a program written in PHP , a very popular language for web applications. It can run on any operating system that PHP can run on, which is all the major ones. Similarly, it can run …

6 days ago · Global sysops are highly trusted users with a strong track record of cross-wiki contributions that have sysop and interface administrator privileges on most public wikis, for …