On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Happy-melon <happy-me...@live.com> wrote: > It is a generic problem, but it has particularly nasty interactions with > RevisionDelete: fundamentally, it can become impossible to tell when, why or > by whom a RevDel'd revision was deleted. The other manifestations of the > lunacy of identifying deleted revisions by timestamp rather than revision id > are not so serious, but these definitely are. > > Identifying deleted revisions by id rather than timestamp is a lot of work > in itself; not least of which is writing and running a script to fill in all > the null values for old deleted revisions on WMF wikis. There's no point in > doing that if the 'grand plan' is to move away from having an archive table > altogether. But equally this is an issue which does badly need work done. > Hence the question, ""what *is* the grand plan?"" > > --HM >
Or we could just ignore[1] them. 1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29&diff=101684983&oldid=101671249 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
