On Feb 6, 2008 4:43 PM, Anders Wegge Jakobsen wegge@wegge.dk wrote:
"Andre Engels" andreengels@gmail.com writes:
Just thinking out loud here: Might it be possible to have a Special:Recentchanges with only edits by a certain user, or even just
[[Special:Contributions/Jusoneuser]] should do the same, if I understand you correctly.
The issue is precisely that it does not. There is information stored in the recentchanges table, such as patrolled status and size changes, which is not stored in the revision table, and which therefore is not available to Contributions, history, etc. without some weird monkey business.
You know, exactly why do we have a separate recentchanges table at all? It seems as though the few extra tidbits that aren't in the revision table could just be added there, and then that could be unioned with the log table to produce Special:Recentchanges. (This would also make it possible to keep all edits' IP addresses forever, which is probably a much more sensible default than deleting them after a week.)