Krinkle wrote:
So any page deleted after June 2005 will retain the
same low old revision if
when restored. However any page deleted before 2005 didn't have the saved
revision-id, so when any of those pages are restored now MediaWiki generates a
new revision-id, just like it does for Import, just like it did before 2005
for undeletion.
Part of this is wrong. When a page is undeleted, it gets a new page ID, no
matter when it was created/restored. While the old page ID is stored in the
archive table, it isn't used during undeletion. This is the subject of bug
26123: <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26123>.
I just tested this again on
test.wikipedia.org to make sure I wasn't
crazy/that the behavior hadn't changed since I last looked. It definitely
does not use the old page ID upon restoration. As noted on the bug, one of
the potential problems here is that you can have multiple options to choose
from.
MZMcBride