In fact some WMF paid employees (including me) were in the channel at
that time and agreed with the decision.  It seemed then and still seems
to me a reasonable course of action given the circumstances. I
understand it's aggravating to people who didn't get notice; let's look
forward.  PLease just add the UA header and your tools / bots/ etc.
will be back to working.  Thanks.

Ariel Glenn
[email protected]

Στις 16-02-2010, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 16:21 +0000, ο/η David Gerard
έγραψε:
> 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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