On 17/01/2008, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)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.