On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Dan Garry dgarry@wikimedia.org wrote:
Speaking from my experience as an oversighter, I find it a bit strange that when you oversight something, information that is hidden in the UI is not hidden in the API.
There's little reason we couldn't surface this information in the web UI, and in fact I almost did when working on this change. But I ran into trouble figuring out what exactly the "enhanced" watchlist was doing with the grouping and decided it wasn't worth the trouble to figure it out.
There's actually a good bit of information that is available from the API that isn't in the web UI (or isn't very visible there). For example, history pages only display timestamps to the minute while the API gives resolution to the second. The timestamp when a page was added to a category isn't exposed in the web UI either, as far as I know, nor are sha1 hashes of revisions, files, and so on.
Or are you referring to how the RevDel checkboxes were labeled "Hide action and target"? That's being fixed.