[WikiEN-l] Bauer DRV question - history (was Wikimedia Foundation sued)

[George Herbert]

On 3/26/07, Ron Ritzman <ritzman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/26/07, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Makes me want to code up a new user permission bit to let people look
> > at deleted edits without having to get full admin rights, in my
> > nonexistent spare time...
>
> And how would it be decided which ordinary mortals get the bit?. A pox
> on your propeller beanie if you say "edit count". :)

That would be a policy question, up for normal consensus determination...

My opinion on the topic would be anyone who has been around for a
month and wants it, and who doesn't turn out to cause problems with
it.  "We took the material down and restricted access to staff,
administrators, and a small set of other known users...".  As long as
we restrict access "enough" to deleted info then liability concerns
don't really care if a few of the people who can see it aren't
wikipedia "Administrators".  If it is truly more sensitive than that
then it should be oversighted.


-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com