On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Tim Weyer (SVG) <wikitech-l(a)svg.name> wrote:
The 'deleterevision' permission is an
instrumental supply if you want to
delete a revision of a page due to adding libelous information.
But it also allows suppressing log entries and some sysadmins don't want
to grant their administrators this possibility.
(1) It's not possible to
suppress log entries ; it's possible to mask
the IP address / username or the edit summary.
The entries with the date and the fact data has been masqueraded are
still there.
(2) A sample about technical versus social rules enforcement. On the
French Wikipedia, we use these social rules:
- Admins use deleterevision for copyvio (yes, on fr.wikipedia, we
always had a very strong attitude against copyright and never reverted
it, we deleted articles and restore good versions in the past before
deleterevision)
- Oversights, a group especially created for this use, and so
especially trusted, could mask diffamation/libelous /confidential
personal information revisions.
- But technically, an admin could use its deleterevision right to mask
a libellous entry.
'deleterevision' as "delete a
revision" is no additional possibility.
Revisions can also be deleted with 'delete' and 'undelete' permission
(but it's more difficult than 'deleterevision' process).
My suggestion is splitting 'deleterevision' permission into:
deleterevision: (un)deleting revisions only
suppresslogentry: (un)hiding log entries only
Fine rights are always a good idea,
up to the point extra rights means
unmanageable complexity for the people having to configure a MediaWiki
setup.
By the way, is it really useful to be able to text content but not the
IP/username or the edit comment now I clarified a little bit how the
right work?
Cheers,
Tim
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Tim Weyer
MediaWiki user "SVG"
Git/SVN committer "cervidae"
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Sébastien Santoro aka Dereckson
http://www.dereckson.be/