In fact some WMF paid employees (including me) were in the channel at that time and agreed with the decision. It seemed then and still seems to me a reasonable course of action given the circumstances. I understand it's aggravating to people who didn't get notice; let's look forward. PLease just add the UA header and your tools / bots/ etc. will be back to working. Thanks.
Ariel Glenn ariel@wikimedia.org
Στις 16-02-2010, ημέρα Τρι, και ώρα 16:21 +0000, ο/η David Gerard έγραψε:
On 16 February 2010 16:13, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Domas Mituzas midom.lists@gmail.comwrote:
No idea. For ages you've been able to just go onto the Wikimedia servers and change whatever you feel like, and answer to nobody? You must be misunderstanding my question or something.
Kind of. Isn't that a good enough motivation? :-) Though of course, I tend to consult with tech team members, and they're free to overturn anything I change, especially if they come up with better solutions (and they usually do!). And indeed, I guess WMF owns the ultimate power of terminating my access :)
In all honesty, I find that fascinating. If someone manages to write a book about how that system works, I'll probably buy it.
That should be the next book about Wiki[mp]edia. I had *never* thought that volunteer sysadmins would be feasible until I saw it happening here.
Wikimedia: Things Are Different Here(tm).
- d.
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