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. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
