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Edits with user/IP suppression aren't obvious at user contribs
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Author: FT2.wiki

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When an edit has the username/IP field suppressed or deleted, it's (correctly) not shown to most users looking at the author's contributions, to avoid making the redaction futile. It is still visible in contributions to oversighters, but there's no obvious indication that the edit won't be shown to other people.

I'm not sure what happens in contribs, when the user/IP is deleted (as opposed to suppressed) with RevDel; that might need checking.

This is important because an oversighter needs to be aware when an edit has the user/IP redacted, to avoid accidentally breaching the privacy issue that led to suppression.

Requested enhancement: Entries within [[Special:Contributions]] that have the username/IP is suppressed or deleted, should be clearly visible as such, so a reviewing oversighter or (later on) admin can clearly see and knows those edits aren't visible to most users.

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement

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bz20470

Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 10:51 PM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Revision-deletion.
• bzimport set Reference to bz20470.
• bzimport created this task.Sep 2 2009, 12:52 AM
aaron added a comment.Sep 2 2009, 11:21 PM

The show/hide links is already bolded in those cases for Oversight users. The only thing to change is to mark oversighted edits to other users.

• bzimport added a comment.Sep 3 2009, 4:06 AM

FT2.wiki wrote:

The show/hide link isn't salient to the question.

In most places "show/hide" is visible, the edit is always visible to all; the show/hide in bold indicates some fields are hidden.

In contributions though, the edit may _not_ be visible to others (as opposed to visible with hidden fields). It needs to be much easier to see when looking at a suppressed item in a list of contributions, whether the username/IP field is suppressed/deleted, in which case the entire entry will not be visible to others.

aaron added a comment.Sep 3 2009, 5:57 AM

show/hide in bold doesn't just mean that some fields are hidden, it means that all the deleted fields are suppressed, and either all deleted fields are suppressed or they are all just hidden from non-admins.

• bzimport added a comment.Sep 3 2009, 12:29 PM

FT2.wiki wrote:

Yes.

What I've noticed is that it isn't enough to know that the deleted fields are suppressed or hidden from non-admins.

If the deleted or suppressed fields happen to include the username/IP, then that needs flagging separately on [[Special:Contributions]].

It's important that a suppression of the username/IP field for a revision, viewed in the [[Special:Contributions]] list, is *automatically* visible to reviewing oversighters/admins on the face of that page, *without* having to click-through the show/hide link.

aaron added a comment.Sep 8 2009, 2:30 PM

Changing summary

aaron added a comment.Sep 12 2009, 5:47 PM

Done in r56234

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