https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26122
Aaron Halfaker <aaron.halfa...@gmail.com> changed:
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--- Comment #31 from Aaron Halfaker <aaron.halfa...@gmail.com> ---
I folks. I just came across this bug. I figured it might be helpful if I
added my own use-case.
I'm a research scientist working in the analytics team at the WMF. I'm working
with a the Growth team to redesign page creation for newcomers and we'd like to
understand how page creation/deletion worked historically. To do that, I'm
trying to reconstruct the history of page creations, deletions and moves.
In order to track edits to pages that lead up to deletion, I'm using a
combination of the Wikipedia API, the archive table and the logging table.
Because of this bug, I'm unable to join archive revisions with their "delete"
event without matching both titles and a range of timestamps (which is slow to
say the least). This isn't just more difficult and time consuming, it's also
much more error prone.
Storing the ID of the page at time of deletion in the log_page field would
resolve this issue for me.
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