[Foundation-l] Issue of transparency and bug waiting for a year

Sun Sep 12 00:02:28 UTC 2010

Dear Wikimedia Foundation,

Please look at bug
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20476 and help fix it.

This bug has been waiting for a year to resolve, and a year has passed
since the stewards are permanent global oversighters. I would like to
recall that, according Oversight policy[1], stewards can have
oversight access on all wikis by granting themselves *temporary* local
oversight access. I would also like to point out that we can not
change its current configuration, because it would hinder the work of
stewards (details in description of bug).

You are doing a great job with usbility, strategy, outreach etc.
(thank you!), but you could hire someone to such a boring job, and
help ensure the transparency of actions taken by the stewards and
other trusted users.

Wikimedia Community can check *all* CheckUser actions taken by
stewards in user rights log[2] and the same situation should be with
Oversight actions. Of course, I trust all the stewards, but I would
like to feel comfortable and I would like to have clear evidence that
the whole community can trust me and other stewards.

I hope the Wikimedia Foundation is committed to taking care of
transparency in the community and we will not have to wait another
year to fix this bug.

Regards,
Leinad

[1] - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Oversight
[2] - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/rights