Yep, that is the MediaWiki API documentation.

On 1 October 2017 at 06:13, Roy Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hmmm, interesting.  I did read [[Help:Toolforge/Database]] where it says:
>
> Tool and Tools users are granted access to replicas of the production
> databases. Private user data has been redacted from these replicas (some
> rows are elided and/or some columns are made NULL depending on the table).
> For most practical purposes this is identical to the production databases
> and sharded into clusters in much the same way.
>
>
>  But didn’t realize that applied to things like rev_text_id.  I assumed it
> was just stuff like user’s passwords and email addresses.  If stuff as basic
> as rev_text_id is redacted, that really stretches the meaning of "For most
> practical purposes this is identical to the production databases”.
>
> I assume by “the API” you mean https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page
> ?
>
>
>
> On Oct 1, 2017, at 12:10 AM, Alex Monk <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The MediaWiki schema description is only valid for the underlying
> database, you do not have access to that as a labs user - you just
> have security-sanitised views. rev_text_ids are not useful to you as
> you cannot access revision texts via the DBs - you must go through the
> API.
>
> On 1 October 2017 at 04:31, Roy Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I’ve been exploring the enwiki database.  I can find the page row for
> [[Iron]]
>
> MariaDB [enwiki_p]> select page_title from page where page_id = 14734;
> +------------+
> | page_title |
> +------------+
> | Iron       |
> +------------+
>
>
> It looks like it has the right number of revisions:
>
> MariaDB [enwiki_p]> select count(*) from revision where rev_page = 14734;
> +----------+
> | count(*) |
> +----------+
> |     5560 |
> +----------+
>
>
> But, all of the rev_text_ids are 0
>
> MariaDB [enwiki_p]> select rev_text_id from revision where rev_page = 14734
> and rev_text_id != 0;
> Empty set (0.02 sec)
>
>
> The schema description seems pretty straight-forward.  What am I not
> understanding?
>
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