[WikiEN-l] Oversight log

Fri Jun 23 16:25:06 UTC 2006

jayjg wrote:
> On 6/23/06, Mark Ryan <ultrablue at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If User X is doing 95% of the
>> oversight revision deletions, I'd like to know about it.
> 
> Hmm.  For a while there someone was doing 95% of the CheckUsers,
> because they were willing to put in the hundreds of hours of volunteer
> time required to do it.  Is that suspicious in some way?

Yes. I would find it suspicious, at any rate. And then I (or someone
else, actually, since I haven't paid much attention to CheckUser stuff)
would go around asking "hey, how come User X is doing 95% of the
CheckUser stuff?" and get various answers from various people amounting
to "because it's a big hassle to do and he's the only one willing to
volunteer the time." That would allay my suspicions.

The fact that suspicions are raised is not necessarily a slight on the
person under suspicion, IMO. It's good to be able to get these things
out in the open and _confirm_ that nothing untoward is going on.

>> This is different to the CheckUser logs because this has content
>> implications, not privacy implications.
> 
> Are content implications more serious than privacy implications?

Wikipedia's goal is to produce content. Protecting the privacy of its
users is only a means to that end - an important means, IMO, but not the
_most_ important. Otherwise why allow CheckUser to be used at all?

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