Tomer Chachamu wrote:
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 04:44:05 -0800, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
- Deleted revisions will remain listed in the contributions history
(though greyed out and in strike-through), making it easier to track serial offenders.
- Deleted revisions will be listed in the regular page history (again,
grayed out and in strike-through). In cases where individual revisions have been struck from a page for eg copyright reasons this will make it easier to see where portions were removed.
I think this will be a bit confusing.
It's fairly common for eg forum and BBS systems to display a placeholder marker for deleted comments.
Do you think it will be more confusing than not even being able to see _that_ there were edits made which have been removed? Mysterious invisible gaps in the page history will, in my opinion, cause more confusion (as they currently do from time to time). Trying to make it a user option or conditionally hiding them from the list is an unnecessary complication which would make it harder for people to work together, help each other, and understand what other contributors are saying when talking about the edit history of a page or the contributions of a user.
Here's a couple quick screenshots off my dev copy. These are views when not logged in, so the revisions are grayed out and not accessible (would appear same if logged in as a non-sysop):
http://leuksman.com/misc/history-deleted.png http://leuksman.com/misc/contribs-deleted.png
The exact styling is subject to change if it sucks too much. :)
Will a deleted page simply have every revision marked with rev_deleted? Will you add page_deleted to speed things up (such as checking whether an article exists)?
Still working on that; something like that probably. A page record needs to be present or else the revisions will lose their identity, which would tend to make things even more confusing.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)