Board Thread:Wiki discussions and announcements/@comment-145064-20140320170332/@comment-3308937-20140325115144

Cqm wrote: I'm from RuneScape Wiki where we've had chat logging for a long time now, you can find the logs here.

Let me just say, thank you for sharing your thoughts and opinions. The Runescape Wiki was definitely the first wiki that came to my mind in regards to a big/active wiki that seemed to me to be fine with chat logging when I was trying to think of examples.

Cqm wrote: If personal information is ever released in public chat without the person who's information it is giving their express permission for it to be released, the only realistic option is using the revision delete tool. Like the name suggests, it allows you to hide revisions in the page history from public view. This isn't normally available for local admins, but there are ways to simulate it if anyone's interested in how. That's something I didn't even think of doing. Our 'crats (namely Teh and myself) have deleterevision so this is definitely a feasible solution for breaches of security.

Cqm wrote: I know someone has suggested screenshot be used as evidence - it takes a small amount of knowledge of html and a browsers developer tools to be able to doctor a screenshot. It doesn't even require image editing software like photoshop.

This is definitely an issue we have had in the past when I tried to enforce chat bans requiring screenshot proof. Not only was there doctoring of the screenshots there were issues with chat mods only screenshotting portions of chat and were leaving important, potentially self-incriminating things out for the purposes of saving face.