On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
As a general note -- I've enabled revision and log suppression for oversighters on all Wikimedia wikis.
This allows for the edit comment, page text, and username to be hidden individually, and optionally to choose whether to also hide it from
sysops.
The two big differences from the traditional oversight system are:
- The entry remains in place in the history or log view -- it's not
secretly vanished as though it never existed. The offending details only are suppressed from view.
Any chance that after some burn-in period you can take all the old oversights and convert them into this new form (with all the hide bits set— since we can't automatically know what needed hiding)?
It would make more sense to do this on an as-needed basis, since it's not clear what level of oversight is required for any given oversight. It's best to be cautious here, and to avoiding fixing issues that a) may cause more problems, and b) don't actually exist yet, and may never come up.