[Foundation-l] did i miss something?

[David Gerard]

On 27/09/06, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/27/06, oscar <oscar.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:

> > therefore: not only did erik unjustly request steward-access, thus using his
> > newly acquired board authority to invoke maximum userrights for himself on
> > the projects, the rights were actually given to him by his friend tim
> > starling who never was an elected steward at all, but holds these rights,
> > just as brion vibber does, purely as a developer, for technical reasons. i
> > am sorry, but both went out of line here. the fact that he knew how to use
> > the rights, yet seemed not to know how to take them away raises some more
> > questions even.
> > it is because i could amost not believe that both had attempted to overstep
> > their bounds so much, that i actually thought there might have been a board
> > resolution of which i had no knowledge at all, therefore the title ''did i
> > miss something?''


And remember the fundamental Wikimedia community policy: Assume Good Faith.


> Not really I suspect most admins don't know exactly what they can do.
> Something I am rather relived by. Unless you have experimented with a
> mediawiki installation offsite you are  unlikely to know exactly what
> permission levels allow you to do before you obtain them.


Well, yeah. Erik cut a corner, he now understands why he shouldn't
have, it's been reversed, no harm was done. Oskar, what further remedy
do you see a need for here?


- d.