On 1/24/07, Patrick R. Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> If a site wants to have pages "deleted but still available",
> then the best bet is to turn off $DeleteKeyPattern (so that
> people cannot delete a page) and provide a way to rename
> pages to include a "-Deleted" suffix on the pagename.
>
> Then pagelist can use $SearchPatterns to exclude pagenames
> that end with "-Deleted", and a simple "list=all" parameter
> can display the "-Deleted" pages along with others.
> Restoring a page is then performed by renaming the page
> to omit the '-Deleted' suffix.


While trying to clear out my PmWiki inbox (todolist, dreamlist) I came
across this email that no one has commented on. Thought I would fire
it out for weekend contemplation.

I'm wondering if anyone else has thoughts on which approach is best
for undeleting pages:

1) Pm's suggestion of simply renaming them without the "," and then
excluding them via SearchPatterns

2) Or allowing pages to be deleted as usual, and provide a mechanism
for automatically restoring the most recently deleted version of a
page (or perhaps an option of any deleted ones)?

Pm's idea was brilliant and very easy to do. But would probably
require more tweaking of a site by an admin to get it setup.  The
second idea seems more natural to the way PmWiki users work, but would
require a bit more challenge to write up the code.

It seems a valuable enough goal to tackle, but wanted to get feedback
from the community before getting to far into this one.

Cheers,
Dan

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