Anyone can, but it doesn't seem as easy, which is what I said before. -Aaron
-------------------------------------------------- From: "Aryeh Gregor" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 7:57 PM To: "Wikimedia developers" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Revision & log suppression for oversighters > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote: >> At least for old entries, the summary could contain information related >> to what is being hidden, where did it come from... > > Certainly we couldn't automatically publicize old summaries. > > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Jason Schulz <[email protected]> > wrote: >> 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. > > This was arguably a legitimate reason for oversight, but for > rev_deleted it no longer works. Anyone can get a list of the articles > and timestamps of all deleted revisions under the new system, logged > or no. The only reason I could see to keep it secret is to prevent > people from easily figuring out who deleted which revision and when -- > and I don't see any justification for that. > > _______________________________________________ > 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
