Jimmy Wales wrote:
Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
Frankly, I don't see much need
for high security of Wikipedia logins.
Agreed. Remember that in the old wikipedia software, anyone could log
in as anyone else, password or no password.
Yes, but
* wikipedia was small (=little known) at that time
* with all the new enhanced functions, sysops can do much more damage
today ;-)
* if someone hacks an administrator password (e.g., mine), a "DELETE
FROM cur" would have us looking for backups pretty fast...
Magnus