Log pages are a pain. They quickly get too long to load comfortably, so people end up manually editing them to archive the information, but attributions of edits are lost when the next automatic edit overwrites it.
They can't be programmatically resorted or filtered very easily. And the upload log makes Special:Unusedimages rather hit-and-miss by linking to every uploaded file...
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Brion Vibber wrote:
Log pages are a pain. They quickly get too long to load comfortably, so people end up manually editing them to archive the information, but attributions of edits are lost when the next automatic edit overwrites it.
They can't be programmatically resorted or filtered very easily. And the upload log makes Special:Unusedimages rather hit-and-miss by linking to every uploaded file...
Looks like you're calling for time to replace all log pages by a system similar to RecentChanges instead?
Rob
"BV" == Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com writes:
BV> Log pages are a pain. They quickly get too long to load BV> comfortably, so people end up manually editing them to archive BV> the information, but attributions of edits are lost when the BV> next automatic edit overwrites it.
For some reason, the history gets lost, too.
BV> They can't be programmatically resorted or filtered very BV> easily. And the upload log makes Special:Unusedimages rather BV> hit-and-miss by linking to every uploaded file...
Not to get too hung up on database-related solutions, but: would a database-related solution work here?
For example, having a logs table (or actions, or whatever) like:
action_type - "delete", "protect", "upload", "ban" action_user - user name action_object - article title, image title, user name action_timestamp - timestamp action_comment - what shows up in the comment on log pages now
This could be queried with a special query page, and you could navigate backwards and forwards in time.
The downside is that the changes wouldn't show up in Recent Changes, unless we made them.
~ESP
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