Yeah, you're right. I know about that wikis but...I guess it would be easier to recover corrupted backups/database than catch all computers from all users that made at least one edit which is needed to recover the original state.
Maybe something like http://deletionpedia.org/en/Main_Page would be useful to examine (yeah, it can catch only deletion that were proposed at Wikipedia of course).
Martin
út 2. 5. 2017 v 19:14 odesílatel Jean Valjean jeanvaljean2718@gmail.com napsal:
It depends on the wiki. Suppose, for instance, you're a RationalWiki user editing Conservapedia, and then the Conservapedia sysops decide, "Hey wait, this user is a troll, so let's block him and delete all this work." If he asks for copies of his articles, they might say, "We don't want to help you spread that nonsense any further."
There also have been wikis whose databases got corrupted, and then they found out that their backups weren't usable either.
On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 12:52 AM, Martin Urbanec < martin.urbanec@wikimedia.cz
wrote:
Mediawiki archives all revisions even they are deleted by a sysop. There
is
no way to delete revs permanently by default (without an extra extension) and there is no need for it too.
Sysops can view all deleted revisions. But when problem with wiki's HDD
is
still a problem.
Then backup, backup, backup is a solution.
Yeah, this is from the administrator's point of view, not the user's one. But I can't see any reason why such extension would be useful still.
As a sysop of cs.wiki I personally have no problem with sending the
content
or restoring it when there is some reason for it. Yeah, you may say not everybody know that the content could be restored technically. But those who know they may use such extension would know the content can be
restored
too.
So instead of thinking about the extension itself I would rather talk
about
the need for it.
Best, Martin
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