[Wikitech-l] Deletion schema proposal: Bug 55398

2013-10-18 Thread Nathan Larson
In one of the earlier discussions about revising the deletion schema, Happy-Melon pointed out, Right now everyone who has ideas for *an* implementation isn't working on it because they don't know if it's *the* implementation we want. It seems to me that if one proposal is clearly superior, we

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deletion schema

2010-05-18 Thread church.of.emacs.ml
Hi, There's another discussion happening at enwiki at the moment about the stalled rollout of RevisionDelete for admins; which is backed up in the chain of bugs which boils down to our deletion mechanism is borked. Indeed. Basically, we have two deletion schemas in parallel at the moment,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deletion schema

2010-05-18 Thread Happy-melon
church.of.emacs.ml church.of.emacs...@googlemail.com wrote in message news:4bf2632f.8000...@googlemail.com... Hi, There's another discussion happening at enwiki at the moment about the stalled rollout of RevisionDelete for admins; which is backed up in the chain of bugs which boils down to

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deletion schema

2010-05-18 Thread Happy-melon
18, 2010 3:05 PM To: Happy-melon happy-me...@live.com; Wikimedia developers wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Deletion schema On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Happy-melon happy-me...@live.com wrote: There's another discussion happening at enwiki at the moment about

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deletion schema

2010-05-18 Thread OQ
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Happy-melon happy-me...@live.com wrote: It is a generic problem, but it has particularly nasty interactions with RevisionDelete: fundamentally, it can become impossible to tell when, why or by whom a RevDel'd revision was deleted.  The other manifestations of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deletion schema

2010-05-18 Thread church.of.emacs.ml
OQ wrote: Or we could just ignore[1] them. 1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29diff=101684983oldid=101671249 I strongly disagree with brion and I hope that everyone realizes just deleting the archive table is not an option. While the archive

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deletion schema

2010-05-18 Thread Platonides
We should start a page at mediawiki.org listing the Pros and Cons of each option. Church of Emacs: I'm still not sure whether RevisionDelete is aimed at replacing the old deletion schema completely, including the archive table. Could anyone comment on that please? It's the logical evolution

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deletion schema

2010-05-18 Thread Chad
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote: We should start a page at mediawiki.org listing the Pros and Cons of each option. Put it as a subpage of [[RFC]]. -Chad ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Deletion schema

2010-05-18 Thread Platonides
Chad wrote: On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Platonides wrote: We should start a page at mediawiki.org listing the Pros and Cons of each option. Put it as a subpage of [[RFC]]. -Chad I started it at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Page_deletion Please, collaborate

[Wikitech-l] Deletion schema

2010-05-17 Thread Happy-melon
There's another discussion happening at enwiki at the moment about the stalled rollout of RevisionDelete for admins; which is backed up in the chain of bugs which boils down to our deletion mechanism is borked. Reviewing the whole deletion mechanism was on the topic list for the last dev