Oversight

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As of 11 April 2007, Oversight users must be at least 18 years of age, of legal age in their place of residence, and willing to provide identification to the Wikimedia Foundation in order to qualify. [1]

For documentation on using oversight or installing the extension, see mw:Extension:Oversight. This page describes Wikimedia Foundation policy.

Users with the Oversight class can remove revisions from an article's history. The revisions can only be restored by a developer.

1 Policy
- 1.1 Use
- 1.2 Logging
2 Users with oversight rights
3 See also

[edit] Policy

[edit] Use

This feature is approved for use in three cases:

Removal of non-public personal information such as phone numbers, home addresses, workplaces or identities of pseudonymous or anonymous individuals who have not made their identity public, or of public individuals who have not made that personal information public.
Removal of potentially libellous information either: a) on the advice of Wikimedia Foundation counsel or b) when the subject has specifically asked for the information to be removed from the history, the case is clear, and there is no editorial reason to keep the revision.
Removal of copyright violations on the advice of Wikimedia Foundation counsel.

Hidden revisions remain permanently inaccessible through the wiki. Therefore, they cannot be accidentally restored when a page is deleted and undeleted. They can only be manually restored by a database administrator, if a mistake was made.

[edit] Logging

The hiding of revisions is logged privately, visible only to other oversight users through Special:Oversight. The log lists who made the removal, when, from which page, and a provided comment. The contents may be reviewed by those with oversight rights, though the originally stated intention was that this will only be available for a limited time period. There is no longer any public logging, to minimize the leaking of private personal information.

[edit] Users with oversight rights

[edit] All Wikimedia projects

Stewards can oversight edits via private request by email to stewards АТ wikimedia.org or IRC personal message. Please do not put your request on wiki or broadcast it on IRC.