(Doesn't LittleDan state that his parents know
about
his >work on Wikipedia?)
Yes, but an initial requirement for parental
permission/knowledge might have detered me. Besides,
restricting minors, even if for legal reasons,
detracts from the whole wiki-ness of Wikipedia. The
whole anon/username/sysop/developer/Jimbo hierarchy
makes proponents of usemod-style wikis say that
WikiPediaIsNotTypical (see MeatballWiki article of
that title) or even that it is not a wiki in the
traditional sense. If we gave children a seperate
level of hierarchy, we'd have twice as many ranks
(actually, we wouldn't have child Jimbos). This is
very undesiarable.
I'm getting on a tangent, but 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, and that is the only difference. I
also don't think that anons should be treated
differently than other non-sysop users, this is just
discriminating against them.
LDan
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