On Dec 20, 2007 12:38 PM, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
On Dec 20, 2007 9:53 AM, Grease Monkee welloiledmachine@gmail.com wrote:
Expanding on this a little more: proposals that reduce transparency and enhance control over individual editors seem to happen with no problema, like checkuser, oversite and the admin irc channel (proposed right here
on
this list).
But the really important things like stable versions ...
Checkuser and oversight are also relatively simple things to implement technically and aren't used by large numbers of editors. Also, in both cases, what this actually was is that previously if these things were required, we had to ask a developer to do them.
I think what you're actually seeing here is that the developers and sysadmins are much more motivated to make changes that reduce their workload and free them up for more important tasks (understandably, since we are very under-manned comparitively)
As to the admin IRC channel, IRC channels don't require any changes to Wikipedia itself, since they exist completely outside of it.
-Matt
Actually, Matt, the stable version concept I mentioned here didn't involve a single new line of code.