[Wikipedia-l] 'old hand' status
Brion VIBBER
brion at pobox.com
Fri Aug 2 00:12:53 UTC 2002
lcrocker at nupedia.com wrote:
>>Now, if the delete is no longer destructive in that way, i.e. if
>>there's a way to ordinary users to revive a deleted page, then we
>>don't really need sysop status except for "old hand" type of
>>functions.
>
> Delete is still every bit as destructive and permanent. The only
> history of deleted pages will be in periodic database dumps. (I've
> only done two since the new server was in place, and I still don't
> have a cron job for it--I need to get some indication of how you plan
> to archive them, if you do, before I can do that).
Under phase II, deleted articles were retained in the table of old
versions, and if necessary could have been restored by a sysop querying
the database. (There never was a pretty interface set up for this.)
I think the issue came up once, but the article in question had been
deleted (accidentally) before that feature was in place, so was long
gone from the database.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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