[Wikipedia-l] Developers should mind their own business

Tue Mar 9 11:38:35 UTC 2004

Tim-

> There is no sense in giving developers administrative power.

I tend to agree, although I think it's not a matter of ability (I do not  
share the "programmers are good at this, not at that" belief; programmers  
are human beings like anyone else) but a matter of scalability. We can't  
make everyone a developer for security reasons. Encapsulating community  
functions like desysopping in the "bureaucrat" flag seems like the most  
reasonable way forward to me.

That of course does not address the question what these bureaucrats are  
*allowed* to do.

Regards,

Erik