https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57490
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Bug ID: 57490
Summary: Write extension to store data about what revisions
were imported from what wikis
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: master
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: [other]
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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Especially in this age of Scribunto, it sometimes happens that revisions will
be imported that end up breaking templates or causing other problems. E.g., you
might import a bunch of templates from Wikipedia and then import some from
other wikis and find that you're getting script errors because you overwrote
something you didn't mean to. It can be hard to sort out which templates are
causing what problems. Re-importing from Wikipedia doesn't necessarily help
because those revisions might be older than the revisions that are causing the
problems.
It would be helpful to be able to do a query and find out what pages' current
revisions (page.page_latest) were imported from what wikis. That way, one could
sort out what needs to be reverted. Therefore, I propose one of two solutions
for storing in the database the data that is in <sitename> in the XML file:
(1) Add a revision.rev_imported field to store the name of the source wiki of
imported revisions.
(2) Add a new table that will store the same data as in option 1.
Option 1 makes sense if a large proportion of the revisions on the wiki will
have been imported from other wikis. Option 2 makes sense if the proportion is
lower. I suspect that people are going to want to go with option 2.
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