Erik Moeller wrote:
Many months ago I made myself a little custom keyword for undeleting pages: http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/keywords.html When I want to do so, I just type "und page_name". While this is a hack and you are correct that a proper action log table and a redesigned undeletion interface would be preferable, I do not see the information that deleted revisions exist as so useful as to have it on all pages, primarily because there's simply a fairly large number of pages which have been experimentally created at one point, deleted, and recreated.
I've decided that I like having this, including for the recreated pages. It can still be a configurable option; no reason for us not to both be happy.
How about displaying it in the top bar only for non-existing pages, and otherwise displaying it only on "Page history"? This should also reduce the number of checks in the ARCHIVE table needed.
(This would also be just fine with me.)
-- Toby