As far as i know mediawiki core has never used views. It is possible some extension made it, but it would be an unusual thing to do (for example the UserSnoop extension makes a view, but not named that). Or maybe a sysadmin made it for their own purposes at some point.

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Brian

On Friday, March 24, 2023, [[kgh]] <mediawiki@kghoffmeyer.de> wrote:
Hi Taavi,

Thanks for the pointer. I got this automatically when dumping the database of a rather old version of MediaWiki. Was something like this in pre-1.23 MediaWiki? It would be a surprise, but one never knows.

Cheers, Karsten


Am 24.03.23 um 18:11 schrieb Taavi Väänänen:
That's a MariaDB view[0] definition. Looks like that one might have been used to give someone access to the `page`.`page_title` and `page`.`page_counter` fields without giving them access to the rest of the page data. Hard to say anything more specific without knowing where you've got that from.

[0]: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/views/
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