What's the next step? Technical help will certainly be needed.
There's a proposal on the pump to "allow non-sysops to view deleted pages". Angela opposes it. I think a slightly better solution is to allow a certain class of users to view the pages. This wouldn't be too hard to implement, just add a third category to the restrictions column.
But perhaps an even easier technical solution is to just modify Special:Export to allow certain IP addresses to access deleted articles. I'm sure we can come up with something that no one objects to, unless there's an objection to me personally having access to deleted articles.
Just to clarify: Only material deleted via the VfD process.
Personally I'm more interested in the speedy deletions, now that these are increasingly being used to deal with legitimate content. Most of the VfDed material shows up in one of the approximately weekly database dumps. I've got a script to parse those dumps, but they almost never contain speedy deletions.
On Saturday 23 October 2004 21:12, Anthony DiPierro wrote:
"allow non-sysops to view deleted pages".
You need to thing about legal consequences if you allow everyone to access "deleted" copyright violations or illegal information.
allow certain IP addresses to access deleted articles.
That's unfair to IP switchers, including but not limited to people who access WP from many computer networks (home/work/etc), people who change ISP and dynamic connections.
there's an objection to me personally having access to deleted articles.
Not allowing access to information to a specific person just because that person's presence is perhaps undesired is undemocratic.
Personally I'm more interested in the speedy deletions
I thought there was some due process that disallowed sysops from deleting legitimate content via "speedy deletions".
material shows up in one of the approximately weekly database dumps. I've
I would say that downloading the dumps just to get some vfd articles consumes too much bandwidth that other people would use for reading and learning.
dumps, but they almost never contain speedy deletions.
I think MediaWiki keeps all deleted articles in the archive database table but it is readable only by sysops. Perhaps you could ask for sysop privileges and use them only for reading the deleted articles.
Anthony DiPierro wrote:
Personally I'm more interested in the speedy deletions, now that these are increasingly being used to deal with legitimate content.
There you have it admins, Anthony wants all your speedies. I suggest using a script, for greater efficiency in forwarding. It will be interesting to see him carefully preserve "oibpyoiuer" somewhere.
Stan