On 6/30/06, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
On 30/06/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
I don't like it. It reeks of spying, and it's not the sort of thing we would be proud of telling everyone about.
Concur. People fuck up all the time, god knows I've done it enough. We don't need to keep a log of their "almost" fuck-ups as well.
Better turn off the ability to view revisions then...
The ability to scour image page histories for people switching licenses after the fact has been instrumental to detecting dishonestly tagged material on enwiki (people uploading content found on the web, tagging some website, seeing the notice, changing to non-commercial, seeing the notice then finally selecting pd-self, for example). If we are to provide any 'quiz' to users about the copyright status of their images, we should store the intermediate results so that searching for the right answer.
If there is concern that people will see your mistakes and criticize you for them thats a social problem.