I can't speak for your second question, but on the first: have you used Wordpress? The interface is fairly intuitive and obfuscates many of the ways to make the site go kablooey - not all, but many. As someone who has been an admin on their own Wordpress install for years (something that is true of millions) despite not being a professional sysadmin, I've yet to bring my site down.
On 20 May 2013 22:22, rupert THURNER <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Oliver Keyes Community Liaison, Product Development Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
