On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Happy-melon <happy-melon(a)live.com> wrote:
It is a generic problem, but it has particularly nasty
interactions with
RevisionDelete: fundamentally, it can become impossible to tell when, why or
by whom a RevDel'd revision was deleted. The other manifestations of the
lunacy of identifying deleted revisions by timestamp rather than revision id
are not so serious, but these definitely are.
Identifying deleted revisions by id rather than timestamp is a lot of work
in itself; not least of which is writing and running a script to fill in all
the null values for old deleted revisions on WMF wikis. There's no point in
doing that if the 'grand plan' is to move away from having an archive table
altogether. But equally this is an issue which does badly need work done.
Hence the question, ""what *is* the grand plan?""
--HM
Or we could just ignore[1] them.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technic…