[Foundation-l] Call for a moratorium on all new software developments

[Teofilo]

2010/9/7, Kropotkine_113 <Kropotkine113 at free.fr>:
> There is absolutely nothing wrong with it on french Wikipedia.

My interpretation : French admins are happy to see their powers
increased, and to mimic oversighters with it. Non-admins, especially
newly-registered ones might be too shy or not aware that they are
allowed to have an opinion on such issues, and feel that when
developpers install a new software on your wiki, (if they only find
out that the software has changed: many changes are quite invisible)
you just have to shut up and smile.

The policy page at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Oversight implies
that similar powers are not given to anybody except oversighters (or
above : stewards and top level WMF people).