To be honest, I see this in the same way like Adrian and Vito. MF-W has even posted
Wikidata's current OS stats on the project chat, which clearly indicates no need for
oversighters at Wikidata for now, in my opinion. That's also the reason why I
didn't support the requests for oversight permissions. It is clearly not like there
are many requests which cannot be handled by stewards on time, anymore. Honestly, I'm
also a bit disappointed because we are focussing so much on, in my opinion, pointless
right discussions. Currently, the most common task is to suppress revealed admin IP
addresses. There's an easy solution: check whether you are logged in and read the
messages which are showing up if you try to edit a page being logged out.
The target of Wikidata is still to develop a free knowledge base.
Regards,
Leon
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From: Adrian Raddatz <ajraddatz(a)gmail.com>
Date: 23 April 2013 21:51
Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] Oversight nominations
To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project."
<wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Meh. The oversight right in general is pointless, just a legal separation that for some
reason can't be handled by admins. Oh well, I don't make the rules, and if people
really want more flags we might as well let them ask. At least we aren't replacing the
40+ stewards with just two ovs, and have a whopping seven candidates. I'm not sure
what to think of that, actually... Especially since that's more than past os requests
done on Wikidata.
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Vito <vituzzu.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Il 23/04/2013 21:28, Adrian Raddatz ha scritto:
I completely agree, and don't know why there is such a move towards localizing
oversight (and I imagine checkuser will come next). It should be noted that stewards can
still oversight as part of cross-wiki work that they are doing, per the voted-upon
policy.
Maybe I'm a bit biased since I'm a stewie but frankly I don't see so much
need for local oversighters, local checkusers might be ok (but actually I saw only
crosswiki issues needing a check on wikidata) but ovs are imho pointless.
Vito
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