I don't mean to break the current design, rather to implement a new feature, these pages could live in a special namespace like [[NoHistory:PageName]] and it would be forbidden to move pages from / to this space so that existing articles with history could not be damaged in any way.
Since it wouldn't be used by people at all, but only by automated bots or scripts, I don't think there would be any problem with attribution.
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Derric Atzrott datzrott@alizeepathology.com wrote:
I> might be wrong, but I believe there's a legal implication to doing
something like this (at least on WMF wikis) since it's removing attribution to various people who "contributed" to the article, even if it's not in the traditional sense. Also it kind of violates the basic design of MediaWiki itself, which is to keep revisions of pages.
This would make an excellent extension though. I know we would use it. It's probably one of the most straight-forward to make extensions I've heard of as well.
Thank you, Derric Atzrott
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