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On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/2/3 Farkas, Illes <[email protected]>: >> Dear All, >> Please, tell me, if other lists would be more appropriate for the following >> question. Thanks. > > [email protected] would be a better list, but I'll try > and answer here. > >> We do non-profit research at a university and our goal is to learn more >> about how Wikipedia can produce high quality. So far we have used mainly the >> dump files from the Wikimedia download site. >> >> Does anyone happen to know whether the hierarchy of Wikipedia users is >> public? And maybe the same for the employees of the Wikimedia Foundation? > > Wikipedia doesn't really have a hierarchy, most things are done by > consensus (at least, the actually writing of articles is, some of the > behind the scenes stuff is done by votes). There are certain people > with access to restricted tools (for deleting articles, for example), > for information about that (for the English Wikipedia, at least, other > languages may be slightly different but the basic idea is the same) > see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_access_levels > > The Wikimedia Foundation staff and hierarchy are described here: > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
