Hi all, there was a feature to show deleted edits in Interiot's edits counter but it was disabled "due to legal concerns ... until a lawyer can be consulted" (as written in the counter page). Do these problems still exist? Recently I've noticed another tool on Toolserver doing the same thing: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~vvv/deletedcontribs.php?wiki=ruwiki_p&user=Ed...
If that's not a problem, why not to allow reactivating this feature in Interiot's editcount?
-- Ed
Well, we should ask Interiot if he's figured out the legal problem. If not, VVV either knows the answer or is naive of the earlier takedown.
On 7/27/07, Edward Chernenko edwardspec@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all, there was a feature to show deleted edits in Interiot's edits counter but it was disabled "due to legal concerns ... until a lawyer can be consulted" (as written in the counter page). Do these problems still exist? Recently I've noticed another tool on Toolserver doing the same thing:
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~vvv/deletedcontribs.php?wiki=ruwiki_p&user=Ed...
If that's not a problem, why not to allow reactivating this feature in Interiot's editcount?
-- Ed
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Why does it not do permission checks? This should be disabled. I already wrote special:DeletedContributions.
-Aaron Schulz
From: "Edward Chernenko" edwardspec@gmail.com Reply-To: toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org To: toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Toolserver-l] About publishing lists of deleted edits Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:54:31 +0400
Hi all, there was a feature to show deleted edits in Interiot's edits counter but it was disabled "due to legal concerns ... until a lawyer can be consulted" (as written in the counter page). Do these problems still exist? Recently I've noticed another tool on Toolserver doing the same thing:
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~vvv/deletedcontribs.php?wiki=ruwiki_p&user=Ed...
If that's not a problem, why not to allow reactivating this feature in Interiot's editcount?
-- Ed
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Any system like this should require opt-in. It isn't hard to code, and it avoids legal issues. Just require the user to make a dummy edit to their user page while logged in with a specific, self-explanatory edit summary, and check for it with the API, then maintain a database of verified users. Heck, we could even do this in a toolserver-wide process, with one opt-in system for all tools, and a centralised system with an API for checking if a user is verified.
-- Draicone
Yes, I second Draicone, it should require an opt-in process of some description.
On 7/28/07, draicone@gmail.com draicone@gmail.com wrote:
Any system like this should require opt-in. It isn't hard to code, and it avoids legal issues. Just require the user to make a dummy edit to their user page while logged in with a specific, self-explanatory edit summary, and check for it with the API, then maintain a database of verified users. Heck, we could even do this in a toolserver-wide process, with one opt-in system for all tools, and a centralised system with an API for checking if a user is verified.
-- Draicone
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I wonder whether it the replication of this data is made purposely available to toolserver users. Deleted revisions should not be visible to non-admins of a projects. Also, last time I checked, the table for deleted images was not available. I think this 'd better be gone as well.
Bryan
On 7/28/07, Daniel Bryant dbwiki@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, I second Draicone, it should require an opt-in process of some description.
On 7/28/07, draicone@gmail.com draicone@gmail.com wrote:
Any system like this should require opt-in. It isn't hard to code, and it
avoids legal issues. Just require the user to make a dummy edit to their user page while logged in with a specific, self-explanatory edit summary, and check for it with the API, then maintain a database of verified users. Heck, we could even do this in a toolserver-wide process, with one opt-in system for all tools, and a centralised system with an API for checking if a user is verified.
-- Draicone
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