Do you happen to have a list of the extensions that were installed on that wiki?
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On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 3:19 PM Brian Wolff <bawolff(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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
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> On Friday, March 24, 2023, [[kgh]] <mediawiki(a)kghoffmeyer.de> wrote:
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>> Hi Taavi,
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>> 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.
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>> Cheers, Karsten
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>> Am 24.03.23 um 18:11 schrieb Taavi Väänänen:
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>>> 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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