On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Oliver Keyes okeyes@wikimedia.org wrote:
Well, has it ever been written down anywhere and solidified as Official Standard Operating Procedure? If not, structured or not, it's informal ;)
It is definitely way past the realm of "everyone knows this is the way things are done, even if it's not officially stamped 'policy'". However, the process is described on-wiki already: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requesting_wiki_configuration_changes