Hi!
Really? Were you doing this work as a contractor, or as a volunteer?
Volunteer.
Someone's gotta be in charge of the contractors and/or the volunteers, no?
Dunno, Cary maybe? :) On the other hand, even if they are in charge, it doesn't mean that they are my bosses :-)
No idea. For ages you've been able to just go onto the Wikimedia servers and change whatever you feel like, and answer to nobody? You must be misunderstanding my question or something.
Kind of. Isn't that a good enough motivation? :-)
Though of course, I tend to consult with tech team members, and they're free to overturn anything I change, especially if they come up with better solutions (and they usually do!). And indeed, I guess WMF owns the ultimate power of terminating my access :)
Cheers, Domas