[WikiEN-l] [Wikitech-l] Re: Update to gfdl copyright notice needed

[Ray Saintonge]

Daniel Ehrenberg wrote:

>If we gave children a seperate
>level of hierarchy, we'd have twice as many ranks
>(actually, we wouldn't have child Jimbos). 
>
He does have a daughter. :-)

>I think we should just
>have only the ranks of users, developer-rank people,
>and Jimbo. Recently, as you all know, a previously
>developer-only feature of Wikipedia was just given to
>all sysops. I don't see why  sysops shouldn't have
>database access, 
>
Developer access should continue to require some level of technical 
competence.  It's not just a matter of people willfully vandalizing the 
site.  Someone who does not understand what he is doing could accidently 
let loose a Frankenstein bot.
Ec