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Wikipedia were in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise
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Back when I worked at the foundation there was a special permission that you couldn't have unless you'd broke stuff super badly. To push new code you have to have one of those folks present. They were responsible for making sure there was a back out plan and ran the actual deploy script. Their ssh keys did the deploy.
I got this bit set after I took out search for Italian Wikipedia. And all none Wikipedias.