On 16 February 2010 16:13, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Domas Mituzas <[email protected]>wrote:

>> > 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.

>> Kind of. Isn't that a good enough motivation? :-)
>> Though of course, I tend to consult with tech team members, and they're
>> free to overturn anything I change, especially if they come up with better
>> solutions (and they usually do!).
>> And indeed, I guess WMF owns the ultimate power of terminating my access :)

> In all honesty, I find that fascinating.  If someone manages to write a book
> about how that system works, I'll probably buy it.


That should be the next book about Wiki[mp]edia. I had *never* thought
that volunteer sysadmins would be feasible until I saw it happening
here.

Wikimedia: Things Are Different Here(tm).


- d.

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