This is an interesting point, because many trolls actually WIN when we delete something, because their trolling is there forever. It should be visible for administrators, or if you search for it, but not in the deleted article itself. ________________________________ From: Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2022 4:03 PM To: Wikimedia Mailing List <[email protected]> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: "content was" when deleting pages - is it useful?
Yes, that's what I imagine. In the Hebrew Wikipedia, this feature is still active, and someone wondered what is it actually good for. When I delete pages, I definitely erase things that may be in any way problematic. And sometimes I delete them even if they aren't. If this feature didn't exist, it wouldn't bother me. But that's my experience--maybe I'm missing something. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore בתאריך יום ב׳, 17 בינו׳ 2022 ב-16:35 מאת Newyorkbrad <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>: The problem with this feature was that when the deleted material was libelous, offensive, etc., it would still automatically be copied into the deletion summary, which served to defeat the entire purpose of deleting it. Newyorkbrad/IBM On Monday, January 17, 2022, Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[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/JFRQXYH7QPC3UE4K7G7APCVPPD64JP6M/ To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
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