On Sun, 10 Aug 2014, at 23:19, K. Peachey wrote:
Lets all welcome the new overlord Erik.
Add a new protection level called "superprotect" Assigned to nobody by default. Requested by Erik Möller for the purposes of protecting pages such that sysop permissions are not sufficient to edit them. Change-Id: Idfa211257dbacc7623d42393257de1525ff01e9e https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#q,Idfa211257dbacc7623d42393257de1525ff01e9e,n,z
This change solves a problem that does not exist. We either trust sysops, or we don't.
Erik Moeller wrote:
In the long run, we will want to apply a code review process to these changes as with any other deployed code
I hope such things will not need to go through the WMF. Or is that what you'd like?
svetlana.