On 12/9/05, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@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