Kevin,

I didn't think you were using "oversight" in the MediaWiki jargon sense.
But I do think the concept of oversight -- as distinct from consideration,
discussion, deliberation, or consensus-building -- is very disconnected
from the present reality. What authority would be claimed in conducting
this oversight, and what set of rules would be enforced?

Pete


On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Kevin Gorman <[email protected]> wrote:

> Heh, I probably shouldn't have chosen a word with two more or less
> contradictory ideas that also refers to a mediawiki userright.  I meant
> oversight as in scrutiny by other Wikimedians to ensure the process doesn't
> go off the rails, not oversight as in negligence or oversight as in what we
> do to especially nasty content instead of revdel.  (I would consider any
> process that gets large graphics on to prominent pages on the projects with
> so few checks on it as lacking sufficient oversight.)
>
> -----
> Kevin Gorman
> Wikipedian-in-Residence
> UC Berkeley
>
>
> On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Pete Forsyth <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Kevin Gorman <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > there's something seriously weird about the fact that a project that
> all
> > > other projects depend on has the media it displays on it's front page
> > > selected by pretty much one person with no
> >
> >
> > I was with you up until the last word. Did you really mean:
> >
> >
> > > oversight.
> > >
> >
> > ???
> >
> > -Pete
> > [[User:Peteforsyth]]
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