On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 01:56:29 +0300, NSK <nsk2(a)wikinerds.org> wrote: As it happens, this feature has long been requested for the purpose of excising copyright violations from the database. I searched mediazilla and turned up http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/507 - which is a rather lateral-thinking solution, which allows the *undeletion* of specific revisions (e.g. all except the one you want to permanently delete). According to the comments there, it's been committed for HEAD (1.4 pre-alpha), and there's a patch to backport to 1.3. -- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP]

NSK wrote: Given the repeated disputes over deletion the right to change history shold be limited to very few people with proven wisdom and maturity. There are too many gunslinger sysops in whose hands this tool would not be appropriate. Ec