https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20267
--- Comment #5 from [email protected] 2009-10-04 21:08:18 UTC --- (In reply to comment #4) > (In reply to comment #3) > > Personally, I don't see a reason why normal users > > should need to read the autoblock-log at all. > MediaWiki has the policy of "open by default". You're going to have to come up > with better reasoning than that. I know. The reason of course is not that users don't *need* to know this log, but that it may be of privacy concern. Besides the fact, that without this bug fixed, hidden usernames stay visible, this log can also be used to guess about User/IP relationships. This is sometimes really nice for blocking reocurring vandals as done by sysops, but not really something normal users need to worry about. -- 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
