That's an excellent feature, Magnus. But (and I'm sorry to have to qualify this praise) I'm not sure how useful it is without password-based unique logins. As it is, it could allow a lot of mischief ... suppose I go now and login in as, say [[tbc]], then permanently delete every article having to do with [[nutmeg]].....

kq

You Wrote:

There is a "delete this page" function in the PHP wikipedia, for "privileged" users only. As I anticipate this to be a problem for some "normal" users, as demonstrated here, I added an automatic log page

to that

function ([[Log:Page Deletions]]). Every permanent page deletion via that function will be recorder there, with date and user name, and will

show on

the "Recent Changes" page.

I demonstrated it at http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/fpw/wiki.phtml?title=special:RecentChanges with the old "Feature Requests" page, for those who'd like an example.

The log page cannot be edited by *anyone* via the web interface. Of

course,

I cannot prevent the direct edit of the database.

Magnus Manske

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