On 17/01/2008, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
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)?
Possibly. The point is that (a) admins will often see individual revs they want to zap (prior to notifying the oversighters, usually - but take them out of public view ASAP) (b) it needs to be easily undoable in case of error (c) it needs not to have the effect deleting a page with a zillion revs does.
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.
Making the oversighters more of a bottleneck is the problem I see there. Giving admins the power to delete individual revs wouldn't IMO be a great change from now - they currently do it, they just have to do it by deleting the page and selectively restoring all except the bad revs ... which seems to me more prone to error.
- d.