On 16/01/2008, Simetrical <Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 1/16/08, Thomas Dalton
<thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
How is this feature intended to work? Just being
able to delete random
revisions at will would mess up attribution.
The same is true for oversight. Obviously, don't delete revisions
that will mess up attribution, or if you do, make sure the attribution
is present in some other form. (This is perhaps an argument for
storing revisions as diffs, but that was settled long ago.)
Actually, what is the point of this feature? It seems it's just a
milder form of oversight. In which case, wouldn't it be better to add
a feature to oversight allowing different levels of oversight (similar
to protection)?
The issue of deleting large pages just needs a "delete last X
revisions" button, which doesn't have any attribution issues.
Deleting individual revisions has all kinds of other problems too
(there is a discussion on wikien-l), for example if Admin A deletes
one bad revision, Admin B then deletes the whole page and Admin C
undeletes it, the bad revision comes back. Using oversight at
different levels would prevent that while still giving the same
desired functionality.