On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Brion Vibber
<brion(a)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.