Daniel Ehrenberg wrote:
If we gave children a seperate level of hierarchy, we'd have twice as many ranks (actually, we wouldn't have child Jimbos).
He does have a daughter. :-)
I think we should just have only the ranks of users, developer-rank people, and Jimbo. Recently, as you all know, a previously developer-only feature of Wikipedia was just given to all sysops. I don't see why sysops shouldn't have database access,
Developer access should continue to require some level of technical competence. It's not just a matter of people willfully vandalizing the site. Someone who does not understand what he is doing could accidently let loose a Frankenstein bot. Ec