On Sun, 10 Aug 2014, at 23:19, K. Peachey wrote:
> Lets all welcome the new overlord Erik.
> 
> Add a new protection level called "superprotect"
> Assigned to nobody by default. Requested by Erik Möller for the purposes
> of protecting pages such that sysop permissions are not sufficient to
> edit them.
> Change-Id: Idfa211257dbacc7623d42393257de1525ff01e9e
> <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#q,Idfa211257dbacc7623d42393257de1525ff01e9e,n,z>
> 
> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/153302/

This change solves a problem that does not exist.
We either trust sysops, or we don't.

Erik Moeller wrote:
> In the long run, we will want to
> apply a code review process to these 
> changes as with any other deployed code

I hope such things will not need to go through the WMF. Or is that what you'd 
like?

svetlana.

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