On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Happy-melon <[email protected]> wrote: > > "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....
I'm not sure what the criteria actually are, but I recall encountering a dump entry where the editor's name had been suppressed (missing in the revision) but where the revision text itself was present. (I had an analysis script choke on this, since up to that time I had assumed every revision would have valid contributor information attached to it.) -Robert Rohde _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
