[WikiEN-l] Oversight log

Wed Jun 21 10:10:57 UTC 2006

On 21/06/06, Selina . <wikipediareview at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Originally the log only showed who had removed an edit and where it
> > was removed from. It did not show what was removed so it was not that
> > good for accountability at all. It has now been changes so that it
> > shows the edit that was deleted. This is much better for
> > accountability because we can check up on each other. Unfortunately
> > this means that the log itself has to be kept private. Those people
> > with oversight can view it. No one else can.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Listusers/oversight?limit=500 for the
> list of users with "Oversight" access, which are, at of this moment:

(...)

> Now... If no one knows what exactly was deleted, not even the oversight
> people themselves, how is abuse of this ever going to be detected?

Let's just look again at the message you're replying to:

>> Originally the log only showed who had removed an edit and where it
>> was removed from. It did not show what was removed so it was not that
>> good for accountability at all. It has now been changes so that it
>> shows the edit that was deleted.

The system has been changed to allow it to do exactly the thing you're
fretting about.

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