On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 4:54 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > On 13 May 2013 15:40, Matthew Roth <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm not the right person to say it categorically, but as far as I'm aware, >> there haven't been any non-staff "Admin" level users on the blog, at least >> for some time (again, I've only been at the Foundation for two years and >> I'm qualifying this statement in case there were exceptions). As I >> understand it, because the blog is on the cluster and it could potentially >> be a security concern, there aren't volunteer admins. Right now the admins >> are the 5 people in "Communications manager" positions at the Foundation, >> plus Jay Walsh and a bunch of Ops folks. I don't imagine that will be >> changing, but that's above my level of understanding security and our other >> sites. > > > This is about right. "Admin" in WordPress is much, much more powerful > than "admin" in MediaWiki, much more like "system administrator", and > I really didn't have any need for the power to, e.g., add and remove > plugins. I can approve/trash/spam comments, though, and when I do log > into the blog that's what I use it for.
interesting, and a little confusing at the same time. if it is "system administrator" why a communications manager does have this role then? and even more confusing, matthew, you are saying being a volunteer "is a security concern"? rupert. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
