On 12/25/05, Brion Vibber <brion.vibber <at>
gmail.com> wrote:
A couple months ago the software got tweaked to
display history info
(but not contained text) of deleted revisions to any and all random
visitors. In the last few weeks we've gotten a rash of complaints
about edits being made with private, embarrassing, vandalistic,
libelous, etc stuff in the edit summaries etc, and of course deleting
the revisions from the wiki still shows them to everybody.
For the moment I'm shutting off this ability (restoring the pre-August
behavior) until we get more fine-grained revision deletion / scrubbing
in place. I've added a permission key to control it, 'deletedhistory',
so if there's a need to turn it back on this can just be added to the
'*' pseudogroup in the config to restore the previous behavior.
If the only issue was the contents of the comments can't we just show
the history without them? I even added software support for that a
while ago (for rev_deleted), you just call Linker::commentBlock with a
third paramater bool true.
This does seem like a very useful compromise solution -
what would be really
great would be to arrange things so deleted edits didn't vanish from
contribution lists; the deleted contributions browser
(
) was very useful;
it's a shame to have to disable it if we can just turn off public display of
deleted edit summaries.
[[User:JesseW]]