On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Happy-melon happy-melon@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.
1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technica...