Last modified: 2013-05-02 20:14:37 UTC
I suggest to hide the edit summary in the page Undelete when shown to non-sysops, so they will be able to see the deletion log, who edited the page and when - but not the content of the edits, or the edit summaries. Then I have three suggestions: 1. To grant the permission "deletedhistory" to every user (*). 2. To grant the permission "deletedhistory" to every registered user (user). 3. To grant the permission "deletedhistory" to every autoconfirmed user (autoconfirmed). I will create a patch for the edit summary, and a patch for each suggestion, soon.
Created attachment 1489 [details] Patch for edit summaries This patch edits the following files: * includes/SpecialUndelete.php - uses an "if" to decide whether to show the summary or not. * languages/Messages.php - updates "undeletehistorynoadmin" to be more exact, and to say that they also cannot view the edit summaries. * languages/MessagesHe.php - same as Messages.php, and also matches "viewdeletedpage" to "undeletepage" - not connected, but should be done for uniformity. Now I will create a patch for every option.
Created attachment 1490 [details] Patch for permissions - option 1
Created attachment 1491 [details] Patch for permissions - option 2
Created attachment 1492 [details] Patch for permissions - option 3
Please check in the first patch, then choose among the second, third and fourth.
*** Bug 5237 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Because I think (*) means anonymous users (IPs), I consider my bug 5237 ["Reactivate the permission for public history views of deleted revisions (but without edit summaries)"] as a full duplicate of this one.
(In reply to comment #7) > Because I think (*) means anonymous users (IPs), I consider my bug > 5237 ["Reactivate the permission for public history views of > deleted revisions (but without edit summaries)"] as a full > duplicate of this one. "*" means every user.
Yes, I wanted to write "...means *also* anonymous users..." So option 1 (Patch #2) would be my favourite.
This seems inordinately stagnant. I assume the patches won't apply cleanly any longer. As this is perhaps a controversial change (and was discussed only for enwiki), I'd suggest closing this pending further discussion. If then there is still a desire to implement this, rewrite things.
I don't think there's really any use for this now, and if there is, there would still need to be a way to assign the right to see summaries to groups other than sysop. Can be reopened if there is a reason to do this in the future.
