Last modified: 2009-05-11 23:23:30 UTC
Example history: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Christopher_Walken&offset=20090318235900&limit=9&action=history Example diff from that history (manually created link): http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Christopher_Walken&diff=next&oldid=278156800 A user who has access to show/hide a revision, should be able to see diffs involving that revision which may be (for example) submitted to oversight, or some project's Arbcom. At present an oversighter can see the edit details, or amend visibility, but cannot look at diffs involving that revision (eg to see what was added or removed, if reviewing the edit or the suppression). They get the same error that public users would get. Typical scenario - a user reports a diff for suppression (eg due to privacy breach), the first oversighter to see the request suppresses the edit, and another oversighter wishes to review the edit of verify the action was appropriate -- the diff supplied will no longer work. PREFERRED BEHAVIOR: if the user would have show/hide access to both revisions involved in the diff, they should have acess to the diff itself, and it should be linked as normal in contribs and history for them. Instead, when they open the diff, the diff page should indicate if the revision text of either edit is hidden or suppressed (and whether public or sysops): Ie, where it currently states > You cannot view this diff because one of the revisions has been removed from > the public archives. There may be details in the deletion log", if the user /can/ see the text of both revisions, the box should say > Parts of this revision have been hidden from general viewing. > Details are as follows: > Left revision: visible to all users > Right revision: Hidden from public and from sysops ("privacy breach")
> "another oversighter wishes to review the edit of verify the > action was appropriate" of -> or (typo)
RevisionDelete has a (diff) link for change, you can use that.
Apologies for reopening. But the two aren't at all identical. A lot of the time one is sent links between two (effectively) arbitrary diffs, not two consecutive ones. The hard link to /this/ diff in RevisionDeleted itself doesn't make up for the fact that one cannot see the diff between a hidden edit and another previous or subsequent edit. At present one cannot for example see a diff between a revision where text was hidden, and (for example) the diff 3 edits ago before the 3 vandalism edits, or before some edit war, or as supplied by users. One can only see the one consecutive diff. Normal diff function is needed in history, contribs and generally - in other words if a user can see the text of any two revisions individually, then RevDel should not block them selecting or seeing a diff between the two revisions, or seeing diff links in contribs + history.
Changing summary
Tweaks in r48682
Done in r48902, with confirmation links
Reopening - can this be fixed also for oversighters viewing suppressed revisions/diffs as well? At present the click-through fix of [[Mediawiki:Rev-deleted-unhide-diff]] only works for unsuppressed editors and admins, but the same applies to suppressed edits and oversighters. Thanks :)
Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=284084867> is a revision that has been suppressed according to Oversight-l. The page just states "This page revision has been removed from the public archives. There may be details in the deletion log", as opposed to the more usual [[Mediawiki:rev-deleted-unhide-diff]] ("One of the revisions of this diff has been removed from the public archives... you can still [$1 view this diff] if you wish to proceed". Had the item been admin deleted, a visiting administrator would be shown the message advising them that the content was deleted but that they could click through a link to view the deleted material. Apparently this isn't done for oversighters clicking suppressed material. To fix this, [[Mediawiki:Rev-deleted-no-diff]], [[Mediawiki:Rev-deleted-text-permission]], and [[Mediawiki:Rev-deleted-text-view]] would need to take a $1 parameter for the click-through link, as [[Mediawiki:Rev-deleted-unhide-diff]] does.
(I think?)
'oldid' viewing of old versions (not diffs) do not have this quick link live at the moment. This was fixed ages ago, but hasn't been synced.
