"Aryeh Gregor" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Jeff Kubina <[email protected]> > wrote: >> 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, an individual revision can be deleted. There are at least three > different ways to do this, last I checked. I would expect that the > old ways (oversight, and delete+selective undelete) would leave no > traces at all in the dump, while the new way (rev_deleted) might only > suppress certain fields. I'm not sure offhand, though.
IIRC, any revision that has any of the rev_deleted bitfields set will be excluded from dumps. Don't quote me on that.... --HM _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
