https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23489
Summary: Know the page title and content of a deleted rev by
its rev_id
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: Deleting
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
I'm working on a cross-WMF-wikis spam list with a few stewards, which sadly has
a huge data corruption because of the iso-latin the original dev (Beetstra)
used in the database instead of a plain UTF8. We've been trying to correct it,
but we're hitting a problem when it comes to get the page title of revs that
have been deleted : it's impossible. (end of "my life message")
In the user interface, Special:Undelete uses a timestamp instead of a rev id,
and requires a page title, and allows to see the contents and comments.
In the API, &list=deletedrevs provides similar information.
The problem is some links are provided with nothing more than a rev_id
(especially when shortened, "/wiki/?oldid=12345" for instance)
It should be possible to get the page title and perhaps other properties of a
deleted rev by providing only its id.
It could also prove useful to alter Special:Undelete to use revids instead of
timestamps, seing as timestamp seem somewhat "messy" (there's always a
possibility for two edits to occur in the same second for the same page).
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