[WikiEN-l] Oversight log

Thu Jun 22 04:07:38 UTC 2006

The suitable initial group seems clear enough: every administrator.

Beyond that, the censored log should be available to everyone.
Administrators often have more than enough to do and any assistance
non-administrators can do in the way of oversight is a good thing.

Removing the page isn't close to sufficient - it conceals what is
perhaps the most significant part of what is being overseen: who is
doing what, where and still concealed from most, why.

It's worth remembering that a few million pages with things not
vanishing completely have not brought the encyclopedia or Foundation
down. Making sure we have ample oversight so that people actually look
hard at what is being done and mention problems is important to our
process.

Without broad oversight, the capability to make thing silently vanish
should also be vanishing.

James Day