Last modified: 2012-10-29 16:39:58 UTC
Oversight means the action of RevisionDelete and making it invisible even to sysops. Users get confused when they found deleted revisions in history page but no deletion log in log page. Most of them cannot figure out that it's oversight.
"Make oversighted revisions invisible in history": this would create the same diff problems that we want to avoid. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:OVER#RevisionDelete_vs_Extension:Oversight "make oversight log visible in Special:Log" The Oversight ext. had a public log...which was specifically removed due to dump harvesting.
What about using a different mark for oversighted versions in history?
(In reply to comment #2) > What about using a different mark for oversighted versions in history? That's what I was thinking.
(In reply to comment #1) > The Oversight ext. had a public log...which was specifically removed due to > dump harvesting. Users can harvest history pages, cannot they?
Oversight-RevisionDelete entries should not be publicly logged.
(In reply to comment #2) > What about using a different mark for oversighted versions in history? This is a duplicate of bug 21272. (In reply to comment #1) > "make oversight log visible in Special:Log" > The Oversight ext. had a public log...which was specifically removed due to > dump harvesting. And this looks like a WONTFIX. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 21272 ***