sysop

See also: SYSOP

English

Etymology

Blend of system +‎ operator.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪsˌɒp/, /ˈsaɪsˌɒp/

• Audio (UK)

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Noun

sysop (plural sysops)

1. (computing, Internet) A system operator, especially someone who administers an online communications system or bulletin board.
2. (Wikimedia jargon) An administrator on a wiki.

Synonyms

• admin
• sysadmin

Derived terms

• desysop
• sysophood

Translations

Translations

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 系統操作員／系统操作员 (xìtǒng cāozuòyuán)

• Finnish: valvoja (fi), sysop (fi)
• French: sysop (fr) m or f
• German: Sysop (de) m, SysOp m
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Japanese: システムオペレーター (shisutemu operētā), シスオペ (shisuope)
• Korean: 시삽 (sisap), 시스템 운영자 (siseutem unyeongja), 시솝 (sisop), 시샵 (sisyap)
• Polish: sysop (pl) m
• Russian: систе́мный опера́тор m (sistémnyj operátor), сисо́п (ru) m (sisóp)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can

See also

• sysprog

Verb

sysop (third-person singular simple present sysops, present participle sysopping, simple past and past participle sysopped)

1. (intransitive) To work as a sysop.
   • 1977, Henry Torsey Fernald, Fernald Club Yearbook, numbers 46-55, page 28:

     Another major chunk of time goes into computer work - entering the data which is dumped on my desk at irregular intervals by the other IPM programs, tidying up the database, and sysopping on our micro-based bulletin board system.

2. (transitive, rare) To give someone sysop privileges.