[Mediawiki-l] Adjust article content without modifying page_touched

Platonides Platonides at gmail.com
Sat Oct 22 21:42:02 UTC 2011


Zach H. wrote:
> I have no desire to have a header, this is more for reporting purposes as
> one might understand that having old data in a knowledge base article could
> be bad :) but i do see the logic, i will adjust my SQL to only review the
> current version's rev_timestamp. I also follow your logic on having the bot
> edit the page and place the template on it {{outdate}} but my only fear is
> it will make and follow up reporting indicate that the page has been edited
> within the given 365 day time frame. I will have to present this to the team
> and see if this is an acceptable compromise.
>
> Thanks for all the input Brion you have been very helpful and also thanks
> for being a MediaWiki super hero!
>
> Zach H.

Well, you would consider that a page is (potentially) outdated if it 
hasn't been edited in 365 days OR it has the outdated template.




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