On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Tim Weyer (SVG) <wikitec...@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 > > -- > Tim Weyer > MediaWiki user "SVG" > Git/SVN committer "cervidae" -- Sébastien Santoro aka Dereckson http://www.dereckson.be/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
