https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28956
--- Comment #2 from Ariel T. Glenn <[email protected]> 2011-05-14 06:03:05 UTC --- Yes, actually I have a number of thoughts on the issue, but first we have to deal with the "political" side of the issue, which is that deleted revisions get deleted or oversighted for a reason, and if we only produce incremental dumps on a regular basis, those revisions don't get removed from what's produced. At least, they wouldn't with the existing system. We should talk about the consequences of that. We might be dealing with copyrighted material which has since been removed, or information that identifies a user; those are the two big cases in my mind. The way the dumps are supposed to work is that eventually we don't make the old copies public any more; space is reused, and so downloaders pick up the new files. Of course if someone wanted to keep a copy of the old files they could, but in practice that doesn't happen for the en dumps, as we saw several months ago when we had the server outage. On the one hand it's sort of like security through obscurity; we're relying on good will and inconvenience more than anything else to make the system work. OTOH it's maybe better than ignoring the issue. Thoughts? We would still need to generate fulls of course on a regular basis, and I am guessing that we would need to provide a script that would merge incrementals with fulls, since page moves and deletion information would need to be included in the incrementals. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
