Forum:User Permissions Database Glitch

A user has mysteriously appeared on our list of Sysops at the Gaiapedia. He also appears to be a Sysop on central as well. Contributions have never been made by this user, and when you check the logs on wikia and on gaiapedia it shows that no one has ever promoted him to Sysop level even though on the userlist he does have Sysop status. And I cannot see any description of him being staff, administrator, or even making a large number of contributions.

To me it looks like a server glitch randomly giving someone Sysop status on multiple wikis. If it's not a simple glitch, I see no reason for a user who has never been on our wiki to have Sysop status there and I would hope that could be removed, Having Sysop status on a user that our wiki has never seen arround in ways to be able to trust is slightly un-nerving.

The user's who should have Sysop status so far are: And I guess I should also list Alyssachanpc(Bureaucrat) for being the former founder, even though her listed with Sysop and Bureaucrat status is going to be confusing to the users when they search for an administrator to ask for help.
 * Dantman (Me, The current founder, also with Bureaucrat status)
 * GaiaBotSys‎(The bot used in cases where a bot with sysop powers is required. (Does not have bot flag))
 * and Trisk ‎(The Administrator of the wiki which we are partners with.)

The user listed with Sysop status but with no log is Egon.

Dantman (Talk) 21:33, 26 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Don't worry, Egon won't make you any hurt. He is staff and is probably testing something now. I'm sure he won't be active with his right on Gaiapedia (however, he can coz he is staff). Szoferka 22:00, 26 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Ok. Why dosen't staff show up as one of his flags? well... It would have been nice if his userpage would at least show somthing about him being staff so as not to confuse people.


 * He eh, Considering the widespread use of it he's probably working on something to do with the shared permissions. I heared that the flags here didn't exactly work shared like you think they would. It was painfully tricky for me to hack a installation of MediaWiki to do proper semi shared permissions. Fully Shared is pittifully easy, but I had to add some functionality to the Select function of Database.php and so some settings work and other things. Plus every time I installed something like the extension "Special:Makesysop" I had to check it, and make sure that instead of building their own methods for changing permissions they would use the actual permission changing functions in User.php that I altered. That was painfull to do. Now I'm stuck with trying to get shared messages and or central messages working like how wikia does it, but It looks like there's a extension installed for that, but you can't download it from anywhere... That's something I could sure use for whenever we expand and get our own server. Dantman (Talk) 22:33, 26 October 2006 (UTC)