https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43915
--- Comment #5 from Krinkle <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #4) > (In reply to comment #3) > > (In reply to comment #2) > > > How is this different from the usual MediaWiki default bot deletions? > > > > Please (re-)read the comment. I explicitly explain this... > > Sorry, I've not been clear enough: I understand that the original code had > some problems, for which reason some wikis didn't like it and it's not been > run in ages, but I don't know exactly what: have you tracked down this? No, the original script had no problems and nobody had a problem with it (nothing relevant today anyway). The "original script" is deleteDefaultMessages.php and still exists today. It was run once globally around 2007 on all wikis. There is nothing not to like about it. It is completely uncontroversial and trivial. It is no longer relevant today as the "MediaWiki default" system doesn't exist anymore. So running it again it pointless as it won't find anything (there are no more pages in existence last modified by "MediaWiki default" and no new ones will be added as the system doesn't exist anymore). Around 2007 it had been a while since the PHP storage system was introduced, and that's when we ran this script. Now in 2012 it's been a while since translatewiki has been introduced and local pages were copied to translatewiki by users. It still happens from time to time today that a language decides to change a message and first does it locally before importing to translatewiki. So we should probably re-run this every few years. But it is important we don't wait to long to avoid messages from becoming stale and being considered overrides when they are in fact stale. And just like in 2007 we cleaned up system garbage, this time we clean up user garbage. And for the same reasons: To prevent the local versions from blocking updates. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
