At it.wiki:
*copyvios are hidden as soon as they're caught. Also precautionary hiding
is frequently used
*gross insults in summaries and revs are hidden in a discretionary way
*phone numbers and mild leaks are hidden
*profanities are always hidden.
Suppression is very rarely used, also because abusefilter log details are
private, thus reducing the need for suppressing abuselog details which can
only be suppressed.
AFAIK that's the wider revdelete usage across major wikis and likely the
most strict usage of suppression.
Vito
Il giorno lun 14 gen 2019 alle ore 19:20 effe iets anders <
effeietsanders(a)gmail.com> ha scritto:
Thanks for those questions.
Just as clarification, I'm talking about hiding revisions with the effect
that the revisions are greyed out in the history, but that admins can still
see their content. But I realize that oversight policies (the effect of
oversight is stronger) may be more prominent, and that perhaps the
ecosystem of different options should be considered in such a question :) .
Thanks Anne for clarifying terminology - I am mostly aware with the
terminology we use in Dutch, so may mistranslate some things.
Lodewijk
On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 10:13 AM Risker <risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I think one of the issues here is that we are not
all using the same
terminology.
"Hiding", on English Wikipedia, is generally reserved for some weird
extensions that had to have special features built in because
revision-deletion, deletion, and suppression did not work with them. I
think all of those extensions are now disabled on English Wikipedia.
"Revision-deletion" (which has the effect of removing a revision from the
view of the reading public and users who are not administrators or
equivalent) or complete page deletion is used for most copyright
violations
on English Wikipedia. Copyright violations
should not be publicly
available, since it does not meet even the most basic requirements of
edits
to the project; I have a hard time seeing why any
project would leave
them
in the page history, since that is the equivalent
of leaving them in the
project.
"Suppression" is an even higher-level form of revision-deletion that
removes the revision from the view of everyone except oversighters. It
replaced the old "oversight" extension in 2009, and it is my
understanding
that all of the revisions that were historically
removed using the
oversight tool have now been returned to page history and suppressed.
(There are some exceptions.) Suppression is used on English Wikipedia for
most personal information, which can include anything listed in the WMF
privacy policy.
There are variations in the use of the deletion/suppression tools: for
example, since 2009 we have been able to either "delete" or
"suppress"
usernames and edit summaries that are highly inappropriate. The ability
to
"suppress" usernames is sometimes used
when someone edits while logged
out,
not realizing their IP address will appear in the
history.
I suspect that English Wikipedia has lower thresholds for both
revision-deletion and suppression because it has historically been the
project that is most abused, sometimes in ways that I'd be hesitant to
publicly describe.
Risker/Anne
(English Wikipedia oversighter)
On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 12:29, effe iets anders <effeietsanders(a)gmail.com
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is one of these things that seems particularly hard to find, so I'd
> like to pick your collective brains on this:
>
> What are the various policies across our little universe on using the
> 'hide
> version' functionality to hide historical versions of articles? I would
> especially appreciate it if you could elaborate a bit on how it's used
in
practice
with regards to privacy violations (what is the threshold of
private information that would justify hiding versions) and copyright
violations (when do you actually hide the versions, rather than just
remove
it from the current version and leave it in the history).
Are there any global policies on this? I think not, but always better to
double check :).
Best,
Lodewijk
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