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

[Dan Rosenthal]

As an aside, this would be hugely helpful to OTRS legal queue reps,  
who often need to view deleted revisions on other projects. Similarly,  
any future interns that Mike has would make good use of it.

-Dan
On May 22, 2008, at 11:49 AM, Casey Brown wrote:

> 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.
>
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