https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44759
Risker <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #11 from Risker <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #8) > > I think the whole approach being attempted here may be misguided. The issue, > as > I see it, may be that Wikimedians have a strange attachment to preserving > records indefinitely, when perhaps not all records need to be kept > indefinitely. Is there a reason to not auto-prune block log entries older > than, > say, five years? Probably the subject of a separate bug, but definitely worth > investigating, I think. There are at least a hundred thousand accounts on English Wikipedia, if not more, that are blocked indefinitely and will always remain so, and many of them have been blocked indefinitely for more than 5 years; eventually, all of these accounts will have been blocked for more than 5 years. Their block logs must remain so that admins and users in the future will be able to confirm that they're blocked, why, and when they were blocked. I think this is a very good example of a bug that's been filed when people have brainstormed ideas to make someone feel better when that person felt they were inappropriately blocked; in other words, a classic example of hard cases making bad law. Over time a reasonable and workable process can be worked out, but this sudden "something must be done!" process isn't helpful in guiding developers in determining what would genuinely be useful. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
