[Foundation-l] Global rollback users

[David Gerard]

2008/5/29 Ryan <wiki.ral315 at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 3:17 AM, Ryan <wiki.ral315 at gmail.com> wrote:

>> Delete and undelete rights may very well be controversial, particularly on
>> the English Wikipedia, where some deleted revisions that are not strictly
>> "personal information", but may very well need to stay private, can be
>> viewed by administrators.  Perhaps the users are trusted globally, but this
>> could be a serious concern, potentially.

> To expand on my point as well, viewing deleted revisions is one of the few
> controversial administrative tasks that is not logged publicly, so this is
> even more of a concern.


And abuse of it is the entire reason Oversight exists.


- d.