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

[Casey Brown]

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 7:54 AM, Brian McNeil
<brian.mcneil at wikinewsie.org> wrote:
> As many will be aware, English Wikinews very recently desysopped fourteen or
> fifteen people - including Jimmy Wales. This was done by project consensus,
> and despite jwales asking for the privilege back the consensus seems to be
> "no" or "only on a temporary basis".
>
> Since there are no visible sysop actions for jwales, the only real use has
> been to see deleted stuff.
>
> A suggestion has been floated that a third way would be a new privilege to
> see everything. Something that - I think - should be granted to all board
> members and likely all staff. I don't just mean for Wikinews, but across all
> languages and all projects.
>
> This doesn't strike me as something particularly difficult to implement, but
> there are some wrinkles to iron out with it.
>
> First, my assumption is all Board members should have this priv.
> Staff? Probably, but most definitely Mike Godwin.
>
> Should it include oversighted edits? Is this even technically feasible?
>
> Are there any circumstances where someone could be elected to a project
> ArbCom without sysop? Should they then have this privilege?
>
> Who should be permitted to grant the privilege? Bureaucrats, or just
> stewards?
>
> Anything else?
>
>
> Brian McNeil
>

This sort of idea has been tossed around for a while now, see
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comments/Wikimedia_Foundation_staff_permissions>
for the proposal and the talk page (mostly, if not totally) in
support.

-- 
Casey Brown
Cbrown1023

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