When people know that rev X was removed at time Y, trolls go to the old xml dumps, find, and post the content, as I believe has happened in the past. It's much easier to do that with a public log.
-Aaron -------------------------------------------------- From: "Aryeh Gregor" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 7:12 PM To: "Wikimedia developers" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Revision & log suppression for oversighters > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Aryeh Gregor > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Question: what's logging like for this? Are there public logs? Even >> just "User:So-and-so disabled bits Z, Y, and X of revision W, article >> [[Blah blah]]" would be very beneficial to have in the public eye, >> IMO. > > Apparently there aren't. > > // Put things hidden from sysops in the oversight log > $logtype = ( ($nbitfield | $obitfield) & > Revision::DELETED_RESTRICTED ) ? 'suppress' : 'delete'; > > Could I ask what the reasoning is for this? I can see the reasoning > for CheckUser being almost entirely secret, but it seems impossible to > me that there's any scenario in which the mere action of the removal > needs to be hidden. Are there any objections to at least adding a > summary-less public log entry in addition to the full private entry? > Actually, if there are reasons why the summary couldn't be public too, > I'd like to hear those. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
