I don't agree at all with your ideas of hiding
some
information from
users... one of our great strengths is transparency
and openness.
We've tried really hard -- and with some success --
to avoid
cliquishness in terms of sysops, banning, policy
discussions, etc.
One of the things that keeps the "in crowd" honest
is a commitment to
transparency and personal accountability. Moves
away from that may
help sysops avoid being yelled at by trolls, but it
also risks bad
behavior on *our* part.
--Jimbo
I agree with all this.
There is one area though where transparency of
information is not offered to regular users, it is in
the deleted pages.
Once a page is deleted, no one except sysops can look
at it. I think it right only sysops can delete and
undeleted pages.
But I think it wrong regular users can not from time
to time check whether pages were not unproperly
deleted (not along community defined rules).
That is a feedback control not offered in Wikipedia. I
think providing a feedback tool would help
strengthening the trust regular users have in sysops.
And be a real commitment to transparency and accountability.
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