Maniphest T192957

"Account is hidden from public lists" is misleading
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There are three visibility options in Special:CentralAuth to set to user accounts: visible, hidden and oversighted. The second one (hidden) has the following description: "Account is hidden from public lists". This is not true.

What 'hidden' actually does to the best of my experience and understanding is to simply hide the account from Special:GlobalUsers. That's hardly hidding an account name from public lists since the account will still display on logs and edit histories.

The only option that totally removes an account from public lists is the 'oversighted' one.

The messages centralauth-admin-status-hidden-list, centralauth-admin-action-hide-lists and centralauth-admin-hidden-list need to be reworded as long as its functionality remains just what it is now: remove the account from Special:GlobalUsers (and prevent displaying CentralAuth data to users w/o centralauth-lock permissions).

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Reword some messages to provide more accurate scope	mediawiki/extensions/CentralAuth	master	+7 -7

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Invalid	None	T40638 [DO NOT USE] Interface messages needing rewording or documentation and other issues with existing messages [superseded by #Voice_&_Tone]
Resolved	MarcoAurelio	T192957 "Account is hidden from public lists" is misleading
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MarcoAurelio created this task.Apr 24 2018, 8:38 PM

Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptApr 24 2018, 8:38 PM

MarcoAurelio added a parent task: T40638: [DO NOT USE] Interface messages needing rewording or documentation and other issues with existing messages [superseded by #Voice_&_Tone].Apr 24 2018, 8:39 PM

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MarcoAurelio moved this task from working on to later/stalled/blocked on the User-MarcoAurelio board.May 2 2018, 9:36 AM

Change 430320 had a related patch set (by MarcoAurelio) published:
[mediawiki/extensions/CentralAuth@master] Reword some messages to provide more accurate scope

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/430320

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.May 2 2018, 10:10 AM

MarcoAurelio moved this task from later/stalled/blocked to ready/patched/SWAT on the User-MarcoAurelio board.May 4 2018, 8:58 AM

Are the messages edited on any wikis?

I think no, because stewards can lock only on Meta-Wiki.

Change 430320 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/CentralAuth@master] Reword some messages to provide more accurate scope

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/430320

MarcoAurelio closed this task as Resolved.May 7 2018, 3:56 PM

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• Vvjjkkii renamed this task from "Account is hidden from public lists" is misleading to ebeaaaaaaa.Jul 1 2018, 1:14 AM