Another possibility is to hide
Special:Log/globalauth from non-stewards like it's done with
Special:Log/suppress for users without the global permission "hideuser".

That would be [[bug:18060]].

Kind regards
DerHexer

Changed to critical due to major privacy concerns. If an user account has to be globally hidden, there should be _no_ public traces left. Hideuser should not leave behind the username it is trying to hide.
The only way to fix the behavior of global hideuser is to oversight the log entry - and due to the oversight policy, a local oversighter on meta has to do that (not the steward who globally blocked the user).

mike.lifeguard+bugs wrote:

Actually, you're not quite right on the policy issue, but close enough & it shouldn't matter in any case. Hidden users *must* be actually hidden.

mike.lifeguard+bugs wrote:

Guys, this is a major issue for stewards at the moment. Please move the log for globalauth hiding to the suppression log. Our work is basically *doubled* until this happens - and considering the nature of the disruption, that's very bad indeed.

Critical issue, but not a blocker. Scaling back.

And [[bugzilla:17840]] was a blocker, I see. … This bug unnecessarily blocks work/time of stewards and meta oversights, makes global hidings useless, and should be fixed asap. Kind regards and many thanks in advance.

lar wrote:

Note that stewards (or those with the hideuser permission) probably should be able to see the log and the name, as there may be cases where a name was hidden inadvertantly or inappropriately, that should be visible enough to be undone without needing to undo them first.

Anyone on this bug? It still takes me (as oversight on meta) dozens of hours to remove those entries from Special:Log/globalauth ; and stewards are not any longer able to see them. So please fix that bug as soon as possible! Please keep in mind that we oversights on meta have to do this since more than a half year!

revvar wrote:

Patch, needs review

Attached:

Um, I see a patch but I don't see a commit. Not sure why it was marked fixed.

REOPENING.

See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/61737 which was created at the same time as that patch.

re-closing