On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Erik Bernhardson ebernhardson@wikimedia.org wrote:
I'm not certain if the db servers would like us going back through time and updating all the recentchanges rows on the various wiki's,
Although it probably won't be used on WMF wikis, you'll still need to provide something of the sort so non-WMF wikis don't wind up with broken recentchanges tables for a month when they upgrade to MediaWiki 1.22 when that is officially released.