-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10-08-08 10:54 AM, DaB. wrote: > Hello, > At Sunday 08 August 2010 15:47:25 DaB. wrote: >> I wanted to get an OK (or not) to return the page title, and timestamp >> for a given deleted revid. It might also be helpful to return the >> username. > > in theorie that would be no problem as long as you would respect the > ar_deleted-field. > But in practice it is not that easy, because many revisions, which would > oversighted today, were simply deleted in past (I guess enwp is similar to > dewp here). > So I can not allow such a webtool were you insert the rev_id and get the > page_name back. But as far as I understand you, the main-usage for your > webtool would be to fix a corrupt database for a bot; so why not just fix the > database with data from the toolserver, without providing the data to the > world (that would be ok for me)? > > Sincerly, > DaB.
Well, it is useful information to be able to get for sysops... hence the bug report against MediaWiki. Hopefully the software will give such information directly - it is needed. But in reality, I was asked to do it as a web tool, and it was just easier for me that way. The process needing information will be on another server, so a GET is obviously very simple to do. I'll look at other ways of accomplishing this if you insist. - -Mike -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkxev4kACgkQst0AR/DaKHufWACfaSvwrmDuhvwe1h3wfTSUcBaD VcgAoLagCyB0lZ/oC7XJFqMaeOrrFEFw =J2NE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list ([email protected]) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette
