Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Archive/Searching within deletion log and displaying creator of deleted content

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Searching within deletion log and displaying creator of deleted content

NoN Proposes existing functionality

  • Problem: excepted with the exact target (title or username) as far I now it is not possible to search within the deletion log
  • Who would benefit: every one
  • Proposed solution:
to developp Special:Log in order to have the possibility to show all the deleted content using key words
or to developp the current search engine CirrusSearch with a new filter function "search in: deletion log"
  • More comments: One precise exemple: this simple search [1] with two words (now not displaying anymore any results) allowed me to find several dozen of files within Wikimedia Commons, to delete those files, and to blocks the uploaders (sock puppets). With that querry made by a colleague, showing all the deleted files that contains "Kris_Kourtis" in the titles, showing the deleted administrators, and showing the uploaders, I have been able to find 6 or 7 additional sock puppets and to find additional content to delete. If such a functionality already exist for the Wikimedia projects I would be happy to know it, otherwise I think it should a good thing to have it without to have to go outside the Wikimedia projects to make requests which requires having accounts in the places where it is necessary, ect...
  • Phabricator tickets:
  • Proposer: Christian Ferrer (talk) 13:24, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Very great, thanks you... and for the second time...:). I'm glad I learned something. A possibility to see, within the results list, the name of the creator and the name of the administrator (without to have to click on the fike name) would be great, if the technical staff can do it I would not be against. Christian Ferrer (talk) 11:53, 21 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • I think some deleted contributions and pages should be made viewable to the public, to see what page a vandalized user has created. Thingofme (talk) 08:26, 21 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Per above, the primary ask here is already available at Special:Undelete. Showing the original author and deleting admin is something we can add easily with a user script. I think it would be pretty simple to add in MediaWiki, too... but it doesn't seem like enough work to warrant going through the survey. I think making a task on Phabricator would be the best route. Regardless, we thank you for participating in the survey! MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 04:38, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]