"Aryeh Gregor" Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote in message news:7c2a12e20911100759s1ba211b0k6ef6cb076449be37@mail.gmail.com...
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Jeff Kubina jeff.kubina@gmail.com wrote:
- Is it possible for just one particular revision of an article to be
deleted, maybe due to a copyright violation? If so, is just the content of the revision deleted or would this include all the data associated with it, so that the revision would not even appear in the stub-meta-history.xml file?
Yes, an individual revision can be deleted. There are at least three different ways to do this, last I checked. I would expect that the old ways (oversight, and delete+selective undelete) would leave no traces at all in the dump, while the new way (rev_deleted) might only suppress certain fields. I'm not sure offhand, though.
IIRC, any revision that has any of the rev_deleted bitfields set will be excluded from dumps. Don't quote me on that....
--HM