Mediawiki archives all revisions even they are deleted by a sysop. There is
no way to delete revs permanently by default (without an extra extension)
and there is no need for it too.
Sysops can view all deleted revisions. But when problem with wiki's HDD is
still a problem.
Then backup, backup, backup is a solution.
Yeah, this is from the administrator's point of view, not the user's one.
But I can't see any reason why such extension would be useful still.
As a sysop of cs.wiki I personally have no problem with sending the content
or restoring it when there is some reason for it. Yeah, you may say not
everybody know that the content could be restored technically. But those
who know they may use such extension would know the content can be restored
too.
So instead of thinking about the extension itself I would rather talk about
the need for it.
Best,
Martin
Dne po 1. kvě 2017 23:01 uživatel Jean Valjean <jeanvaljean2718(a)gmail.com>
napsal:
I want to develop a browser extension to save the text
of all submitted
revisions to the local machine.
So for example, suppose you are editing a wiki and you click "save". Your
browser would then save a copy of that revision on your hard drive. Then
you would have all those submissions saved as backups, which could be
helpful if your article were to be deleted or if the wiki were to go down.
There's a problem on the Internet in general, which is that when sites go
down, the content is often irretrievably lost because no one archived it.
This could be a way to help fight against that, by making it easier for
authors to keep copies at least of their own work (which is probably some
of the content they care most about and would be most interested in
salvaging and reposting elsewhere).
I'm thinking this should probably be a Firefox and/or Brave extension,
since those browsers seem the most compatible with MediaWiki. Any
suggestions on what's the best way to go about this? Do you know of any
other browser extensions/plugins I might be able to cannibalize or use as
inspiration for this? Thanks.
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