Board Thread:Wiki discussions and announcements/@comment-3308937-20170117041558/@comment-3308937-20170122051923

Ajraddatz wrote: This gives mods almost all of the sysop-level rights. Why not just remove the mods altogether, and just give people +sysop? Either way I'd support consolidating all the mod rights into the local moderator group that we've used for years.

Sysop still has some pretty influential tools that mods wouldn't have, like mediawiki editing, theme designer, wiki features, nuke, abuse filter, and the ability to give out rollback and chat mod. Whether or not our current crop of mods should have access to these tools is a discussion for a later date, although I do think it could help promote more growth for the wiki if more people had access to mediawiki, would just require more oversight from other admins and us 'crats.