On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Domas Mituzas <[email protected]>wrote: >> Been like that for ages, haven't it? >> > > No idea. For ages you've been able to just go onto the Wikimedia servers > and change whatever you feel like, and answer to nobody? You must be > misunderstanding my question or something. Correct me if I'm wrong, but AFAIR Domas was the MySQL admin guy since pretty much the beginning, and I think that the fact he's sysop won't change anyway, no matter what happens. For the notes, the step of banning everything without UA sucks totally. Sure, the API and other abuse-prone stuff can be blocked, but ordinary article watching should ALWAYS be possible, no matter what fucked-up UA you use.
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