{"id":534460,"date":"2026-04-17T11:28:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=534460"},"modified":"2026-04-17T13:18:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T10:18:21","slug":"belarusian-wikipedia-warns-editors-about-lack-of-edit-hiding-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarusian-wikipedia-warns-editors-about-lack-of-edit-hiding-function","title":{"rendered":"Belarusian Wikipedia Warns Editors About Lack of Edit-Hiding Function"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Belarusian-language Wikipedia has warned editors about a security issue: the project no longer has oversighters \u2014 users who could hide or remove edits from the history of articles on sensitive topics. The human rights center &#8220;Viasna&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/viasna96\/34565\">drew attention<\/a> to this.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, information about authors and the content of edits may now remain publicly visible. Contributors located in Belarus are advised to avoid editing political and other high-risk articles from their regular accounts, even under pseudonyms. As an alternative, they are encouraged to use temporary accounts or incognito mode.<\/p>\n<p>The community is currently discussing and voting on a temporary solution that would partially restore the edit-hiding function.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_534363\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-534363\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-17_10-58-27.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-534363 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-17_10-58-27.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-17_10-58-27.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-17_10-58-27-300x101.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-17_10-58-27-768x258.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/photo_2026-04-17_10-58-27-870x292.jpg 870w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-534363\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot of the page<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Belarusian-language Wikipedia has warned editors about a security issue: the project no longer has oversighters \u2014 users who could hide or remove edits from the history of articles on sensitive topics. The human rights center &#8220;Viasna&#8221; drew attention to this. As a result, information about authors and the content of edits may now remain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":534459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69e208f090145.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarusian Wikipedia Warns Editors About Lack of Edit-Hiding Function"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143127],"tags":[143118],"class_list":["post-534460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-society","tag-belarus"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}