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.
I think there's some stuff in the works here. A web interface for group rights, and a more general (but WIkimedia-specific) extension is half-done by Victor.