There are paid administrators and developers, but also unpaid ones too. Yes, there are volunteer sysadmins, some with the exact same authorizations as WMF empl

There are paid administrators and developers, but also unpaid ones too. Yes, there are volunteer sysadmins, some with the exact same authorizations as WMF employees. With modern infrastructure as code, they can even contribute to how the site is deployed. Some projects have good crossover between paid and volunteer Wikipedians. But the WMF tends to do the heavier lifts, even if sometimes they are ideas the community isn’t interested in.