On 11/10/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Essentially I agree. It all comes down to mature judgement, and who is capable of exercising it. We have a lot of people who can too easily jump to conclusions.
Yes. One question is whether we want every language and project community to develop its own policy on these matters, or whether this is an area where it makes sense to have a single policy that is localized. This goes for checkuser and oversight as well. Perhaps an in-between solution makes sense, where the WMF requires that local policies identify and propose a group that consists of the most trusted users before granting these privileges on a language/project level.
Perhaps it should also be a requirement that users who have the technical permission to use these tools disclose their identity to the WMF, so we have someone to deal with in case of abuse.