2009/11/10 Jeff Kubina <[email protected]>: > I am working with some enwiki-{YYYYMMDD}-stub-meta-history.xml dumps and > wanted to get clarification on how certain fields of the articles can > change: > > 1. What action will make an article get a new pageId? Is it > only move/rename, a redirect, or a deletion and recreation, or are there > other ways this could happen? Can any of these changes be detected from the > stub-meta-history.xml files? > When a page is moved, it'll change its name but keep its pageid. A redirect will be created at the old name with a new pageid.
> 2. Is it possible for just one particular revision of an article to be > deleted, maybe due to a copyright violation? If so, is just the content of > the revision deleted or would this include all the data associated with it, > so that the revision would not even appear in the stub-meta-history.xml > file? > Yes. In this case, any trace of the revision ever having existed is gone from the dumps, AFAIK. > 3. Are pageIds recycled? If a page is deleted, could its id number be used > for a completely new page in the future? > No, pageids are never recycled. Roan Kattouw (Catrope) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
