From: "Jimmy Wales" jwales@bomis.com
- "developers" -- the main extra thing that developers should have
access to would be "raw" stuff that's pretty technologically "dangerous" if you don't know what you're doing. I.E., ability to enter arbitrary SQL select statements, even ones that might be really slow. This extra power should only be used for development purposes, and not "in a content fight".
I think I'm metadata-aware enough to be trusted with read-only SQL access to wikipedia, but I've been wrong in the past and can't think of anything immediately useful I'd do if I did have select access.
Since it appears to be a fairly strongly copyleft project, I assume you have published its SQL data model?