Kelly Martin wrote:
On 12/9/05, Jtkiefer jtkiefer@wordzen.net wrote:
Yes but unfortunately as it is now edit summaries are always viewable to anyone even when deleted which the vandals have figured out and are now using to get away with slander and privacy policy violations which it takes a developer to remove. If something like this is implemented admins should have the ability to also hide the edit summary from being seen by non admins
Locked revisions would have their edit summaries obscured (it would appear as "(edit summary obscured for legal reasons)" or something like that).
Why should revisions like that be kept at all? It sounds like what you're proposing is just a way to mix deleted revisions in with undeleted revisions in the article history, rather than having a separate group of deleted revisions you have to click a link to see.
Wikipedia's content is commonly mirrored. If these "hidden" revisions don't go along with the published databases they're as good as deleted anyway. If they do go along with it, then they're not "hidden."