[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Special:Contributions: index missing?

[Mark Gallagher]

G'day Rob,

> There's been some discussion on a development mailing list regarding
> the namespace selector in contributions pages, which is expensive due
> to our schema arrangement.

D'oh.

> One of our database administrators has posed this question, which I
> thought I'd forward to this list, since it's full of users.

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> From: Domas Mituzas <midom.lists at gmail.com>
> Date: 23-May-2006 11:28
> Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Special:Contributions: index missing?
> To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l at wikimedia.org>
<snip/>
> What is the point of per-namespace contribution feature on live site?
> What are the applications of it?
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It's damn useful to be able to filter down contributions to a particular 
namespace.  For example, if I know a user has repeatedly violated 
copyrights, I can check all Image:-related edits without needing to wave 
through edits to the other namespaces, to ensure that all his copyvios 
are tracked down and destroyed.



-- 
Mark Gallagher
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