Timwi &lt;timwi(a)gmx.net&gt; writes: You must also delete _all_ revisions derived from the copyright violation. Of course, you can preserve parts of the jounger revisions which are not derived from the questionable parts. -- | ,__o | _-\_<, http://www.gnu.franken.de/ke/ | (*)/'(*)

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jimmy Wales wrote: | I think that this is pretty important, too. Can you please raise the | license issue gently over there? It's better to keep a copyvio around | in the page history for a little while, until a developer can delete | it by hand, than to do what they are doing. | | Your idea for a feature is a very good one, too. I hacked some code during this evening which enables deletion of single revisions. It is quick and dirty and does not provide any security (confirmation, checking if the revision still exists) but it works. Here are the diffs (hope this is correct, if not I will mail the complete files to some of the developers): includes/PageHistory.php 84,85c84,85 < $s .= $this->historyLine( < $this->mArticle->getTimestamp(), - --- | $s .= $this->historyLine( | $this->mArticle->getTimestamp(), 89c89 < ( $this->mArticle->getMinorEdit() > 0 ) - --- | ( $this->mArticle->getMinorEdit() > 0 ) 188a189,190 | // Add a link to delete only this revision of the page history | $dellink = $this->mSkin->makeKnownLink( $artname, $cur, "delold=($oid)"); 192c194 < $s .= "({$curlink}) (!OLDID!{$oid}!) $arbitrary . ."; - --- | $s .= "({$curlink}) (!OLDID!{$oid}!) ($dellink) $arbitrary . . index.php: 88a89,91 | case "delold": | $wgArticle->$action($oid); | break; includes/Article.php: 943a944,986 | function delold () { | global $wgUser, $wgOut, $wgMessageCache; | | $fname = "Article::DeleteOld"; | wfDebug( "$fname\n" ); | | if ( ( ! $wgUser->isSysop() ) ) { | $wgOut->sysopRequired(); | return; | } | if ( wfReadOnly() ) { | $wgOut->readOnlyPage(); | return; | } | /* The following is a suggestion to store the deleted copyvio in a seperate | table named. I am not sure if this is useful and of course we could use | the archive table for this. */ | /* | $sql = "INSERT INTO copyvio (cv_namespace,cv_title,cv_text," . | "cv_comment,cv_user,cv_user_text,cv_timestamp,cv_minor_edit," . | "cv_flags) SELECT old_namespace,old_title,old_text,old_comment," . | "old_user,old_user_text,old_timestamp,old_minor_edit,old_flags " . | "FROM old WHERE oid='{$oid}'";"; | wfQuery( $sql, DB_WRITE, $fname ); | */ | $sql = "DELETE FROM old WHERE oid='{$oid}'"; | $wgOut->addHTML( "<p>" . $sql ); | //wfQuery( $sql, DB_WRITE, $fname ); | | $wgOut->setPagetitle( wfMsg( "actioncomplete" ) ); | $wgOut->setRobotpolicy( "noindex,nofollow" ); | | $sk = $wgUser->getSkin(); | $loglink = $sk->makeKnownLink( $wgLang->getNsText( | Namespace::getWikipedia() ) . | ":" . wfMsg( "dellogpage" ), wfMsg( "deletionlog" ) ); | | $text = wfMsg( "deletedtext", $deleted, $loglink ); | | $wgOut->addHTML( "<p>" . $text ); | $wgOut->returnToMain( false ); | } | languages/Language.php 406d405 < "Allmessages" => "All system messages", 757a757 | "del" => "del", 1170a1171 | "deletedcopyvio" => "The old version of this article has been deleted",