Note the deletions aren't intended to be "irrevocable". Once phase 2 of this project is done someone could go through and re-add the tag to each thing it was removed from. Kind of like with Special:Nuke, someone could go through and undelete everything that was deleted.
The one roadblock there is that it doesn't currently log every item that the tag got deleted from. Besides log flooding, though, there's no reason it *couldn't* do that. On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 4:41 PM, James Forrester <[email protected]> wrote: > I would go further and suggest that this right is not granted on WMF > wikis. I don't think people would be all that happy if T20670 were closed as "we fixed this, but you can't use it on WMF wikis". Let's fix things rather than jump to non-solution solutions. > We deliberately don't let anyone do irrevocable deletions. move-over-redirect is an irrevocable deletion ;) -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 4:41 PM, James Forrester <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5 February 2015 at 13:13, Jackmcbarn <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Gerrit change 181958[1] was recently merged, which allows (among other > > things) the ability for sysops to irrecoverably delete change tags. Since > > irrecoverable deletion of anything from on-wiki is rather unprecedented, > I > > think we should stop granting it to all sysops in DefaultSettings.php, so > > that wikis have to "opt-in" for this feature to be enabled. Thoughts? > > > > [1]https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/181958/ > > > I would go further and suggest that this right is not granted on WMF > wikis. We deliberately don't let anyone do irrevocable deletions. This > isn't MW 1.4 any more. :-) > > J. > -- > James D. Forrester > Product Manager, Editing > Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. > > [email protected] | @jdforrester > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
