Author: jake
Description:
Right now when an unprivileged user tries to view a deleted diff they are told that the revision has been hidden, but no why or who by. Adding a log excerpt similar to that shown when someone tries to view or create a deleted page that would show who hid the revision and the reason would greatly increase transparency.
Version: 1.16.x
Severity: normal
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | Feature | None | T49402 Better diff for revision deletions: Show indicator of what visibility restrictions were set or unset | ||
| Resolved | None | T22288 diffs between revisions which are both deleted & suppressed | |||
| Open | None | T23175 Add log excerpts to revdeleted diffs |
mike.lifeguard+bugs wrote:
(In reply to comment #1)
I'd assume this would then be needed on viewing deleted revisions too.
Ideally, yes.
jake wrote in the description of this bug:
Right now when an unprivileged user tries to view a deleted diff they are told that the revision has been hidden, but no why or who by.
More accurately, both privileged and unprivileged users see "Details can be found in the deletion log for this page.", which links to that log. However as you don't know when the revdel took place, it can impossible for an unprivileged user to know who did the action, and merely very difficult for a privileged user who can tediously comb through all the RevDel info.
I would suggest that as a simplistic workaround that that the time of RevDel be added to the diff message, changing the part of the current message that reads
One or both of the revisions of this diff has been removed from the public archives.
to
One or both of the revisions of this diff was removed from the public archives at 22:26, 19 November 2015.
That way any user can identify the action in the log. No change to Special:Log would need to be made.
the time of RevDel be added to the diff message
That would be useful, but still requires a (simple) message change.