[Foundation-l] Global rollback users

[Milos Rancic]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 9:32 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, David. I was willing to say "than make the oversight action
for problematic cases", but I was doubtful :)

The number of SWMT members will not reach 100 soon. There are 21
active members, including maybe 10 stewards. English Wikipedia has
~1500 admins and I am sure that 20-30 (1-2%) are not a big deal. Also,
keep in mind that members of SWMT group are usually well known
Wikimedians which passed much stronger criteria than for being an
admin of one project (even the project is en.wp); usually, those
persons are admins, bureaucrats etc. on more than one project,
including Meta, too.