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Je Mardo 27 Majo 2003 14:28, Daniel Mayer skribis:
Toby wrote:
Also, deleting temp pages that are eventually adopted is wrong, since it destroys the edit history. If nothing is being worked on anymore, then redirect.
Well I do this whenever I was the only one who edited the /Temp page but whenever other people contributed to the /Temp page then I go through the hackish process to merge the /Temp edit history with the parent page's edit history.
Another way would be to _rename_ the 'live' page to the /Temp page to work on it, and leave a protected copy in place at the old name. Then when the updates are done, rename it back in place with all history intact.
It would /really/ be nice to have a "combine page histories" option for Admins.
I'm reluctant to do such as there's presently no way to extricate the combined histories if one makes a mistake (or, hypothetically, a rogue sysop goes on a rampage) short of checking backup archives and manually reassigning the entries.
- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)