Thanks for flagging this, Amir. You're right, the reasoning isn't particularly well documented. I've commented on the ticket about the reason English Wikipedia did this, which may be helpful.
Risker/Anne On Mon, 17 Jan 2022 at 09:19, Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> wrote: > Hallo! > > There's an old MediaWiki feature: When an administrator deletes a page, a > bit of its content is automatically added to an edit summary. This is later > viewable in deletion logs. > > If you edit in the English, German, or Italian Wikipedia, then you haven't > actually seen this feature in years, because administrators in these wikis > essentially removed it by locally blanking the system messages that make it > work. > > In many other wikis, however, this feature is still working. > > Is it actually useful? Or should it perhaps be removed? > > Here's a Phabricator task about it: > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T299351 > > If you have an opinion, weigh in there or here. > > Thanks! > > -- > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > “We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/4ZONY3L5LEPO45POJ2SWTPHKFFIJ63UR/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
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