alt Hacker NewsThat's a fair point, but keep in mind normal admin is not sufficient. For local users (the account in question wasn't local) you need to be an "interface admin", of which there are only 15 on english wikipedia.
The account in question had "staff" rights which gave him basically all rights on all wikis.
> For local users (the account in question wasn't local) you need to be an "interface admin", of which there are only 15 on english wikipedia.
It used to be all "admin" accounts, of which there were many more. Restricting it to "interface admin" only is a fairly recent change.