[WikiEN-l] So, has the need for consensus in wikipedia been eliminated?

[Mark Ryan]

On 11/01/2008, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/01/2008, Avi <avi.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_rollback
> >
> > So, have we come to the point where User Rights:Developer trumps User
> > rights:Editor?
> >
>
> No we reached that point around the time we switched from what is now
> the classic skin.

Actually, I'd say there's been a steady, voluntary erosion of the
control developers have over the site. We no longer need developers to
do things for us like oversighting revisions or modifying most
interface text. It's only new things that really need their
intervention.

~Mark Ryan