On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Tim Starling <tstarling(a)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.
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Andrew Garrett