On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Brion Vibber brion@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)?
If for no other reason the continue existence of the old system makes explanations hard: "Oh no, we don't secretly vanish revisions and misattribute edits— for information we had to remove you can at least see their timestamps in the history." "What about this?" "Oh er.. hum.. you see, before some date, if they used THIS button.. err.."