On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 1:09 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. I don't think anyone is unaware of the potential for abuse, but that is not a strong argument against allowing any form of editing edit summaries. A simple limit would take care of most forms of abuse - either limit it to trusted users (e.g. oversight), or permit it only on blank edit summaries and only by the original user. You can even restrict it to a single change, and then the use case would be: "Oops, I forgot to include an edit summary, rather than adding a new revision or leaving it blank I'll just go add it now." _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
