[Mediawiki-l] become user as admin

oscar oscar at wikimedia.org
Tue Jan 19 04:06:17 UTC 2010


On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:43 AM, Angela <beesley at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Florian Effenberger <floeff at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > for a wiki I administer, it's sometimes desirable for admins to work
> > as another user,
>
> Try Special:Piggyback
> The code for it is here:
> https://svn.wikia-code.com/wikia/trunk/extensions/wikia/Piggyback/
>
> Angela
>
>
it sounds like a can of worms to me though.
if you can no longer trust the history of contributors, where would
transparency, trustwortyness of attribution (and attribution rights) go, or
responsibility and accountability in a corporate environment?

is this extension when installed visible in [[Special:Version]] ?
are there any open wikis you know of that use it?

oscar

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