On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Hi folks,
Admins are currently given broad leeway to customize the user
experience for all users, including addition of site-wide JS, CSS,
etc. These are important capabilities of the wiki that have been used
for many clearly beneficial purposes. In the long run, we will want to
apply a code review process to these changes as with any other
deployed code, but for now the system works as it is and we have no
intent to remove this capability.
However, we've clarified in a number of venues that use of the
MediaWiki: namespace to disable site features is unacceptable. If such
a conflict arises, we're prepared to revoke permissions if required.
This protection level provides an additional path to manage these
situations by preventing edits to the relevant pages (we're happy to
help apply any urgent edits) until a particular situation has calmed
down.
erik, this was designed so, and worked well exactly like this.
administrators are voted, and there are hundreds which work together.
if it is wise process to review a change by another administrator
implement it like this. that has to be enough. it worked well 5 years
ago when we had most new editors joining. if you cannot convince the
admins about a change, there is strong evidence that something else is
wrong - not the user rights.
rupert