https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43917
--- Comment #12 from Krinkle <krinklem...@gmail.com> --- (In reply to comment #11) > (In reply to comment #10) > > Related URL: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/64991 (Gerrit Change > > I2680413c276365a44c935a6f6fdd740daa86341e) > > Merged a month ago. > > Given bug 14176 (bug 49793), the script should also delete blank messages and > be run as soon as possible; unless a separate script is prepared and run for > that only. Since blank messages no longer mean showing the default, deleting them seems inappropriate. Yes, there are likely some pages out there that are blank and currently causing bugs due the message being empty instead of the default. However it would be a mistake to unconditionally delete all blank pages in the MediaWiki namespace. For maintenance scripts like deleteEqualMessages it is important that they do not affect the interface. It should only delete things that are non-controversial. If a script to delete empty messages existed in the past, we could've run it once globally after we reverted the feature to have blank messages mean default. But it has been to long to do this now. And one could also argue that it was dangerous even then because there might be existing pages that are blank for other reasons. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
