Author: j.anvier
Description:
Hello everybody,
Here is a little idea. History actually lists all vandalisms and tests that some
users/IPs made, at the same level as all the useful contributions (the one that
are really needed by GFDL). Although it is certainly useful for sociologists
studying Wikipedia, it is not for usual readers and it gives a bad feeling to
some people that come from time to time to request us, admin, to delete those
edits from article history.
But it is impossible to accept their request. We can't delete 10s of times an
article due to vandalism or kids testing, that would make maintenance impossible.
It would be cool to be able to set an "irrelevent" flag attached to an edit that
prevents it to be displayed among the others in the history, except for admins
who certainly need this kind of information.
For example, a revert could set auomatically this flag for the whole set of
reverted edits (and on the revert itself, probably). And for past edits, a
little link on the side of edits in history panel or under edits title when
viewing revision (like the one for patrolled edit) should do the job.
At the contrary, these irrelevent edits should still be listed in the editor's
list of edits, so that people can see whether the editor's usual work is correct
or not (for an adminship request, for example).
Crediting vandals is just weird and it makes history less usable (some users
even use javascript coloring on it, now).
What do you think about it?
Regards,
Eden2004
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement