There is a task in the late stages of planning [0] that will change how comments are stored in MediaWiki. Read the task for details, but the TL;DR is that columns such as rev_comment, ibp_reason, img_description, and so on will be replaced with id fields referencing a separate comment table.
I would encourage anyone running a tool that looks at comments and descriptions to follow the task in phabricator [0] and also to take a look at the task that Anomie opened to explore the idea of providing some views in the replica databases that transparently handle the join [1]. These views would not magically help existing SQL queries, but they might make the short term transition a matter of a search and replace to use the composite view rather than the altered table. [0]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166732 [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166798 Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation <bd...@wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Manager, Cloud Services Boise, ID USA irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855 _______________________________________________ Labs-l mailing list Labs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l
