On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Marc A. Pelletier marc@uberbox.orgwrote:
On 04/21/2014 09:16 AM, Nathan wrote:
Do WMF accounts still get the staff usergroup?
Most accounts of staff and contractors do not get that usergroup: it is a very highly privileged group that includes pretty much every permission on every wiki, and access to it is on a strictly-needed basis.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalUsers/Staff lists some 40 accounts with the right - out of >160 staff - mostly of accounts held by people in LCA.
So the presence of the group is not a usable discriminant.
-- Marc
Of the 120 staffers that don't have a "staff account", how many have accounts with (WMF) in the username - or accounts at all? I'd think that unless employees had a predictable reason for editing qua staff, they wouldn't need the (WMF) indicator or a staff flag, right? In any case, a little off track with the initial proposal, which sounds like it doesn't have a ton of support.