[Wikitech-l] Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: Undeletions

[Erik Moeller]

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> To make it actually possible for human beings to get into the undeletion
> system?

Many months ago I made myself a little custom keyword for undeleting  
pages:
http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/keywords.html
When I want to do so, I just type "und page_name". While this is a hack  
and you are correct that a proper action log table and a redesigned  
undeletion interface would be preferable, I do not see the information  
that deleted revisions exist as so useful as to have it on all pages,  
primarily because there's simply a fairly large number of pages which have  
been experimentally created at one point, deleted, and recreated.

How about displaying it in the top bar only for non-existing pages, and  
otherwise displaying it only on "Page history"? This should also reduce  
the number of checks in the ARCHIVE table needed.

Regards,

Erik