https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18526
--- Comment #4 from spacebirdy <[email protected]> 2009-05-05 21:48:23 UTC --- (In reply to comment #1) > (In reply to comment #0) > > Active vandals with evil names are often caught and reverted by local admins > > and rc-watchers before they are hidden. The resulting reverts, if done in > > the > > standard way, include the name in their edit summaries > > If that's a problem then the edit summaries can be hidden. > As said in [1] it would be very handy, of course the summary could be hidden by an oversighter, but the problem is that this happens quite often and that this often includes a lot of reversions, which means lots of edit summaries that would have to be hidden. You may say that in the edit summary it does no harm, but then what is the purpose of hidename when it does no harm in the summary also on smaller wikis (where such vandalism also occurs), the names and reverts are seen in the rc for a longer time. Best regards. [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17831#c6 -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
