On Dec 9, 2007 10:59 PM, joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu wrote:
Quoting Anthony wikimail@inbox.org:
On Dec 9, 2007 10:34 PM, joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu wrote:
Alternatively the closest thing is to copy and paste the list of difs into a dif on the article noting that in the edit summary that it has that there and then removing the list on the next dif (we've done this before and somone I don't remember who commented that this was probably ok).
Honestly, I don't understand what that means.
Ok, say article X needs the first five edits of an article deleted for privacy concerns. Admin Y deletes those edits, and makes an edit to the article with the edit summary of something like "Look at this dif for list of authors who had edits deleted" and in that edit append to the bottom a list of editors. Then Y makes another edit to remove the list from the page.
That'd probably work, although the oversighters often like to deny that something was even oversighted in the first place. If oversight just deleted the text and the summary, and left the rest of the information, that'd also accomplish this.
A different, probably more acceptable variation is what was done at Justin Berry . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Berry See the note at the end of the article.
Well, yeah, that's pretty much what I was suggesting all along.