On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
In the case of shell requests, volunteers could help by writing web interfaces and automation scripts, to reduce the level of trust needed to fulfill various kinds of requests. Volunteer developers can also help by eliminating whole classes of requests, such as $wgImportSources, by writing less stupid core MediaWiki code.
Wikia has developed an interface to all those variables like $wgImportSources. You could easily allow stewards or any other user group to edit any that are deemed safe for that group to be editing.
The extension is available in our new public SVN at wikia-code.com.
https://svn.wikia-code.com/wikia/releases/200808.2/extensions/wikia/WikiFact...
Angela