[Foundation-l] Global sysop proposals

Mon Jun 23 00:52:05 UTC 2008

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Nathan wrote:
> It doesn't look like Milos' view will hold on this particular issue, but its
> mostly being argued by folks from en.wp at the moment so its hard to tell
> how many other non en.wp people would disagree with his position.
> 
> I think it points up a problem with his global sysop proposal and your
> global view deleted images proposal for commons admins - that being the
> seeming belief that meta proposals ought to act as a means for overriding
> policies on local projects, as though meta were a central governing
> community. Could be just my inexperience with meta and its relationship with
> content projects, but it seems like something of a departure to insist that
> short discussions and votes on meta ought to be enough to allow people to
> take actions on other projects without any notion of or regard to local
> policies and customs.
> 
> Maybe what meta really needs is an umbrella global rights policy that makes
> it clear, without limitation to specific rights, that all global user rights
> are subordinate to local rights and subject to local policies in their use
> (excepting those governed by Foundation policies, such as steward). By that
> I don't mean that global admins should be subject to policies for local
> admins, but that each project should be able to limit or forbid the use of
> global rights specifically and have it stick.
> 
> Nathan
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Here here.

Jon
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