Bryan Derksen wrote:
In a related subject, I'm also wondering about the
"page titles to be
deleted" listing. When was the last time someone with admin access went
through the ones listed and cleaned out the derserving?
A while, I'm sure! I don't have time to do it.
This is one of those potentially controversial areas... we've had
people get into fights about it, in the past, and I don't like
fighting. The idea was bandied about, and I like it, that deleting a
page might not need to delete the history, so that although deleting a
page IS a big deal, it isn't irreversible.
So we could let admins delete pages on the page titles to be deleted
page, but we'd want to set strong (social) policy that this is to be
used only as a technical housekeeping function, not as a tool for
battle. :-)
Last I saw on the bug report page:
"We introduced new separate tables for the linking information, but they
were only filled with a tiny fraction of the actual links. This is mainly
due to me not telling Jimbo clearly enough what he should do. I've given
him new instructions now and hopefully Jimbo gets around soon to redo the
procedure soon. Apologies for the inconvenience. --Jan Hidders 2002 Feb 27 "
Not meaning to sound demanding, of course, but that particular bit of
housekeeping is starting to get in the way of some of the stuff I've been
doing.
Well, I'm not sure what the status is on this. :-(
One problem was that there was a script that needed to be run zillions of times
over and over from the web. A commandline tool would be a lot better, because I
could just open a window, run it, and come back hours later when it is done.