[WikiEN-l] Oversight log

Thu Jun 22 04:15:13 UTC 2006

The problem is that what we are removing is stuff like personal  
information or libelous statements that we really do want to vanish  
and not be repeated internally.

Fred

On Jun 21, 2006, at 10:07 PM, James wrote:

> 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
>
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