How about requiring a password/code to go along with rev_id in order to use the tool (similar to the move to commons process?
Delta
On Sunday, August 8, 2010, Mike.lifeguard mike.lifeguard@gmail.com wrote:
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On 10-08-08 10:54 AM, DaB. wrote:
Hello, At Sunday 08 August 2010 15:47:25 DaB. wrote:
I wanted to get an OK (or not) to return the page title, and timestamp for a given deleted revid. It might also be helpful to return the username.
in theorie that would be no problem as long as you would respect the ar_deleted-field. But in practice it is not that easy, because many revisions, which would oversighted today, were simply deleted in past (I guess enwp is similar to dewp here). So I can not allow such a webtool were you insert the rev_id and get the page_name back. But as far as I understand you, the main-usage for your webtool would be to fix a corrupt database for a bot; so why not just fix the database with data from the toolserver, without providing the data to the world (that would be ok for me)?
Sincerly, DaB.
Well, it is useful information to be able to get for sysops... hence the bug report against MediaWiki. Hopefully the software will give such information directly - it is needed.
But in reality, I was asked to do it as a web tool, and it was just easier for me that way. The process needing information will be on another server, so a GET is obviously very simple to do. I'll look at other ways of accomplishing this if you insist.
- -Mike
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