Andrew Whitworth wrote:
On Jan 20, 2008 8:18 PM, Steve Bennett wrote:
This might not quite be relevant, but would it perhaps be possible to stop people saving to the sandbox? Since the advent of Preview, I don't really ever see a need to actually commit any changes there. Or perhaps old revisions (10 or more ago) could continually be deleted anyway. The old revisions aren't useful or interesting.
There is some merit to this idea. Consider a new type of "temporary page", which simply doesn't store revision histories, or only stores a very limited number of them. Pages like the sandbox, or discussion pages which are archived by copy+paste to other pages don't need to be storing extensive revision histories. Not storing revision histories would make deletion operations trivial, and would also save database space on storing revisions which are simply never viewed.
Since such pages will be relatively rare, and because not storing revisions has implications for licensing, the ability to mark them could be reserved to bureaucrats or others high up the permissions hierarchy.
--Andrew whitworth
This thread then focused on the reasons why you need to be able to save. The sandbox. However, the original point was making Sandbox not store the full history. Something that i have also thought before.
Some point though: -Needs to be a LocalSettings option, not for bureaucrats but sysadmins. -You don't want pages to be moved there. -You lose user contributions (to tell if X user has edited).