Hi Brion, thanks for responding to my panicky inquiry...

From: "Brion Vibber" brion@pobox.com On Dec 24, 2003, at 12:57, Jay Bowks wrote:

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On the statistics page one reads: "The Interlingua version has rapidly decreased unexpectedly. This might be a temporary problem. " Somehow the number went from over 4000 articles to 2800 and then decreasing over each statistics check as if there are deletions taking place.

Who takes these statistics, how? Have there in fact been deletions?

The stats I found were at: http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Multilingual_statistics Paolo Castellina complained to me that a great number of his articles were missing, I took it to imply that these were deleted. I tried to explain that witht he software and domain name changes something may have been lost and I'd try to inquire about it.

Note that under the old software, administrative deletion of pages would have left no trace and been irreversible.

Ay ay ay... well checking the dates on the stats page the sudden decrease took place before the change to MediaWiki software and the Wiki was still under UseMod software.

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I've already requested to have access as admin which I had before the change over to the new software.

You've already been given it, no?

Ok, if so, is there a place to check deletions? I got the uneasy feeling that someone or something a bot perhaps had gone berserk and started deleting pages, so I was getting panicky about it. How does one check for deletions in the new software?

Again thanks so much for your help in all of this Brion, and kudos on the work you've accomplished in getting the other than English wikis up and running on the new software, after the initial shock that the capitalization had made a lot of pages invisible to the links, and many of us started changing titles over there have now been good comments about the new software. Overall it seems like the site is quite speedy, and this may perhaps only be a reflection of how many are away for the holidays and not editing, but things are flying... this is a good thing!

With best regards always, Jay B. [[User:ILVI]]