Hi Lodewijk -
I don't think you're mis-translating; I think that there's just a different
understanding of the terms between projects. Most other projects didn't
get saddled with the extensions that used the actual term "hiding" that
English Wikipedia had, so wouldn't have had a reason to use the
At it.wiki:
*copyvios are hidden as soon as they're caught. Also precautionary hiding
is frequently used
*gross insults in summaries and revs are hidden in a discretionary way
*phone numbers and mild leaks are hidden
*profanities are always hidden.
Suppression is very rarely used, also because abu
Thanks for those questions.
Just as clarification, I'm talking about hiding revisions with the effect
that the revisions are greyed out in the history, but that admins can still
see their content. But I realize that oversight policies (the effect of
oversight is stronger) may be more prominent, an
I think one of the issues here is that we are not all using the same
terminology.
"Hiding", on English Wikipedia, is generally reserved for some weird
extensions that had to have special features built in because
revision-deletion, deletion, and suppression did not work with them. I
think all of
Are you talking about deleting revisions? There is a global policy on this,
found here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Oversight_policy
There are local rules as well, compiled here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Oversight_policy/Local_policies
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:
privacy violations is not standard at all. For example some wikis hide
personal details that people put on purpose, while other ones see no point
since it's their will to show them.
Also, even if it is not strictly related to private information, blocking
deceased users is not standardized am
Hi all,
This is one of these things that seems particularly hard to find, so I'd
like to pick your collective brains on this:
What are the various policies across our little universe on using the 'hide
version' functionality to hide historical versions of articles? I would
especially appreciate i
