On 21/06/06, Selina . wikipediareview@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:
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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.