Kelly Martin wrote:
On 12/9/05, Jtkiefer <jtkiefer(a)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."