On Nov 13, 2014 7:09 PM, "John" <phoenixoverr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Issues arise in the fact that malicious editors can abuse it after the > initial review has been done. Or you can run into cases where offensive > material is added attacking another editor, so editor B reports the issue > and before anyone has a chance to review it editor A changes it back to > something innocent. (rinse repeat for a while before A finally gets > blocked, but meanwhile B is taking the brunt of abuse until an admin > catches on) and there is no way of proving what an edit was at any given > time. > > The biggest thing that you need to realize is that regardless of the intent > of something, it will be abused, how and to what degree can be controlled. > Given that just about everything in mediawiki has a paper trail, (mediawiki > keeps logs for all actions, some are just not visible without specific > rights) introducing a feature that doesnt is not a good idea. > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Jon Robson <jdlrob...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I think this is a great idea and has always baffled me that you can't. > > > > I'm also a little confused by James comment. Maintaining an edit > > history of edit summaries seems overkill. As I understand it edit > > summaries are for aiding other editors. > > > > If we are worried about losing important information, maybe only the > > original editor and trusted editors with certain privileges should be > > able to edit them. > > > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Brian Wolff <bawo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Nov 13, 2014 12:45 PM, "Nathan" <nawr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> > > >> I can see it being useful in two circumstances: > > >> > > >> 1) As part of the oversight right, in order to edit an edit summary > > > without > > >> hiding the entire revision > > >> 2) A right of a user to edit their own edit summaries, if the edit > > summary > > >> is blank > > >> > > >> Since it's possible and at least some people are interested in it, I > > don't > > >> see the downside of making it available in MediaWiki even if most > > > Wikimedia > > >> projects might not use it. > > >> > > > > > > That sounds more like a good argument for making it an extension, rather > > > than a core feature. > > > > > > --bawolff > > >
Wow, that escalated quickly. How did we go from "hey, what's the deal with this?" To YOURE BURNING THE WIKI in a few posts? _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
