[WikiEN-l] Oversight

Sat Jun 10 22:27:23 UTC 2006

On 6/10/06, Anthere <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Oversight
>
> Hello,
>
> It seems I have entirely missed the whole discussion over this new tool.
> I discovered the tool just today and I was wondering :
>
>
> * how did the current editors with access to this tool got it ? (which
> process to get that new status). Are the people only from the arbcom ?
> Or are they accepted by the arbcom ?
>

Mixture of Devs and arbcom. Arcom would have had a hard time getting
elected if they were not trusted and devs could already do this

It is needed to allow us to remove person information from page
histories without hammering the servers.

-- 
geni