Anyone can, but it doesn't seem as easy, which is what I said before.
-Aaron
-------------------------------------------------- From: "Aryeh Gregor" Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 7:57 PM To: "Wikimedia developers" wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Revision & log suppression for oversighters
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
At least for old entries, the summary could contain information related to what is being hidden, where did it come from...
Certainly we couldn't automatically publicize old summaries.
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Jason Schulz JSchulz_4587@msn.com wrote:
When people know that rev X was removed at time Y, trolls go to the old xml dumps, find, and post the content, as I believe has happened in the past. It's much easier to do that with a public log.
This was arguably a legitimate reason for oversight, but for rev_deleted it no longer works. Anyone can get a list of the articles and timestamps of all deleted revisions under the new system, logged or no. The only reason I could see to keep it secret is to prevent people from easily figuring out who deleted which revision and when -- and I don't see any justification for that.
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