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oversighter

noun

Etymology

From oversight + -er.

  1. inherited from *sihti✻ — “seeing, sight”
  2. inherited from sihþ — “something seen; vision”
  3. inherited from sighte
  4. prefixed as oversight — “over + sight”
  5. suffixed as oversighter — “oversight + er”

Definitions

  1. A person having oversight

    A person having oversight; an overseer or supervisor.

  2. A user with special wiki privileges allowing them to hide deleted data from the publicly…

    A user with special wiki privileges allowing them to hide deleted data from the publicly viewable logs.

    • 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”).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for oversighter. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA