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Revision as of 05:00, 13 July 2005 by Jonasaurus (talk | contribs) (format)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)A SysOp is short for "system operator", and is a commonly used term for the administrator of a bulletin board system (BBS) or special-interest area of an online service or, historically, the operators of any computer system, especially a mainframe computer.
Usage peaked in the early 1990s, as the term was actually mostly used strictly to refer to BBS operators; someone doing equivalent functions on the Internet is primarily referred to as a "sysadmin", short for "system administrator".
A Co-SysOp was a user who was granted certain admin privileges on a BBS. Generally, they would help validate users and monitor discussion forums.
Misplaced Pages SysOps
On the Wikimedia Foundation projects such as the Misplaced Pages Encyclopedias, Misplaced Pages Administrators are called sysops, while they perform the duties of co-sysops. This is discussed more within Misplaced Pages policy pages.
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