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Meaning of oversighter | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. A person having oversight; an overseer or supervisor.
  2. A user with special wiki privileges allowing them to hide deleted data from the publicly viewable logs.

Examples

“But there was nothing wrong about that because it fell within UN travel guidelines. Suspicious, yes; wrong, no, the “oversighters” said. Meanwhile, cryptic comments abound in the investigators' report, such as, “It is beyond the purview of this report to inquire into the vagaries of airline fares.””
“Oversighters are allowed to hide revisions, user names, and other entries in an article's record of revisions (its log) so that only other oversighters and stewards can see them (called “suppression”).”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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