On 12/9/05, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen(a)shaw.ca> wrote:
Why should revisions like that be kept at all?
We have to retain the edit history for GFDL compliance.
It sounds like what
you're proposing is just a way to mix deleted revisions in with
undeleted revisions in the article history, rather than having a
separate group of deleted revisions you have to click a link to see.
Wikipedia's content is commonly mirrored. If these "hidden" revisions
don't go along with the published databases they're as good as deleted
anyway. If they do go along with it, then they're not "hidden."
We may have to exclude the text of locked revisions from database
dumps, then. That's not totally infeasible, just requires a few
changes to the code used to generate database dumps.
Kelly