On Mon, 11 Aug 2014, at 04:07, Tomasz W. Kozłowski wrote: > Philippe, > the patch is not for the MediaWiki software but for the configuration > of Wikimedia wikis (it's in the operations/mediawiki-config repository > on Gerrit). > > It has been merged and deployed on the production cluster. The user > right has been added to the global staff user group, and it has > already been used to protect the MediaWiki:Common.js page on the > German Wikipedia so that no one can edit it except Wikimedia > Foundation employees. > > Wikimedia Foundation is using this user right to actively fight its > community of volunteers. > > This is something I cannot and will not support. > > Tomasz >
completely agree with 100% of the above cc'ing 2 more lists ftr, the change discussed is: <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/153302/> _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l