Anyone can, but it doesn't seem as easy, which is what I said before.

-Aaron

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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.
>
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