[Foundation-l] "seeall" privilege Was Fwd: [WL-News] Wikimedia Foundation in dangeroflosing immunity under the Communications Decency Act

[John at Darkstar]

It.wp does not know how to bend the rules?
That *is* shocking! :D

John

Marco Chiesa skrev:
> John at Darkstar ha scritto:
>> If they can grant themselves the privilege, then it is no use of a new
>> user role. If the purpose is to avoid a situation where those users can
>> be said to edit in an editorial role, then it could possibly block some
>> cases whereby someone claims we don't get cover from section 230 of the CDA.
>>   
> I'd say the main difference is that there are no logs for reading 
> deleted revisions, but there are if user rights are changed. Which 
> means: if Steward A assigns herself sysop rights on project B and 
> performs no sysop action, people may just wonder why. With a separate 
> user group, nothing is visible.
>> Other than that, I think it is wise to make any interference from
>> outside the communities as visual and transparent as possible. That
>> includes any interference from WMF into separate language projects on
>> Wikipedia. Wetter that means if Jimbo operates as steward on nowp to do
>> some work there, or if Eric does it as a admin or if Florence does it as
>> a regular user I don't really care. I know they do a good job anyhow.
>> What I do care about is if someone has invisible rights and may come and
>> go unnoticed.
>>
>> If Jimbo, Eric or Florence wants to be admin on no.wp on a permanent
>> basis I guess we can put them up as candidates on the admin list and
>> they will have a lot of users voting for them! :D
>>
>>   
> Uhm, I guess they couldn't qualify on it.wp (not enough edits probably), 
> or that many people would vote against them as not sufficiently 
> active... I guess that would be quite embarrassing anyway
> 
> Cruccone
> 
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