Rotem-
What I asked was either to get developer priviledge (or other developer would help) to remove a couple of duplicate links that are hard-coded into the site
Did it ever occur to you that people have given some thought to the current layout? Take a look at a 30 kilobyte page. Now consider how long it takes you to find the "Recent changes" link if it's only at the top, or only at the bottom, especially if you do not / cannot use the floating menu bar. These links are there to increase usability, and when I first saw Wikipedia's layout I was very positively surprised that people had actually been smart enough to do this, something many other sites forget. Why does Google put the search box at the top and at the bottom of the result screen (which is much smaller than long Wikipedia articles)? Trust me, they know what they are doing.
I really think autonomy is needed here in order to get things going. If you really expect me to wait for Brion Vibber to return from his time-out (and then nag him) then you are wrong. There is no-one except him with developer rights on the Hebrew wikipedia. This is beaurocracy in action, and I don't really like politics.
That's incorrect. Everyone with server access can change the Hebrew Wikipedia. That includes me, Lee and Magnus. Brion understands the various internationalization problems best, though. I don't care if you like politics or not, but you'll have to deal with Wikipedia's rules and conventions, especially regarding the development and maintenance of the codebase. We have just formalized a new development policy which will make it much faster to update all the wikis to the latest version. But for that it is of fundamental importance that all code improvements go through the same process, instead of people doing their own stuff!
Regards,
Erik