2009/4/7 K. Peachey <[email protected]>:
>> Currently undos, so frequent on wikis, just blindly create a duplicate row
>> instead of checking if the old one could be reused,
>> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18333 . Maybe some hardware
>> savings could even be achieved.
>>
> From my understanding they have to be kept within the system to keep
> us within the GFDL licenseing terms.

The text doesn't need to be stored twice, though, just a note that it
is the same text. However, I believe the Wikipedia databases have the
text compressed, so that is effectively what happens already.

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