Those of you on enwiki may have noticed my recent attempts to
democraticise page deletion. I feel the current deletion system on
unwiki is not ideal.
After having a think about how best to solve this problem, it seemed
best to me to have deletion work the same as editing. The fewer
different cases, the fewer problems. The simple solution would be to
have an empty page be the same as a non-existant page (and
blank/non-existant pages could have edit history). That way page
deletion/undeletion would be under the same influences as the adding
and deletion of bits of pages.
This seems like an obvious way of implementing things, however when
mediawiki was designed it wasn't done like that, which leads me to
ask: Are there technical reasons why it wasn't? Deleted pages are
already kept in the database, so it wouldn't cost more space.
(if there are any misconceptions about how mediawiki works in this
mail please let me know; I'm not a PHP programmer (though I might be
forced to become one should I be able to get support for this kind of
scheme on enwiki)).
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