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Sasha Ehrenstein
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« on: November 10, 2011, 01:54:05 »

I saw the issues related to Crasspedia recently, and how one of the Bureaucrat admins ended up removing everyone else as a sysop and Bureaucrat so he could delete everything on the wiki.  I was slightly worried about that myself when I used a farmer wiki, and it's a very serious issue here in any rare circumstances when it occurs since this wiki hosting service does not have global logins and administrator privileges, which would allow a Wikkii staff member to desysop any rouge admins.

To prevent this sort of thing, is there any way that a special creator group with full wiki privileges and cannot be removed could be created, and added to the first user of a wiki?
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« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2011, 13:02:45 »

Thank you for the suggestion. What you say makes sense.

It is something we will need to look into in future.
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« Reply #2 on: November 26, 2011, 13:31:26 »

Maybe it doesn't work this way at all, but would this work?

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GlobalUserrights
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« Reply #3 on: November 27, 2011, 01:20:27 »

I've had that haopen to me once. My wiki used to be called onRacing
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« Reply #4 on: November 27, 2011, 07:42:54 »

Does anyone know anything about whether or not this would be possible under the current farmer system?  I think that all the farmer wikis share a database, but they don't seem to share users, as far as I can tell.
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« Reply #5 on: November 27, 2011, 12:24:04 »

True, Sascha
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