We should start a page at mediawiki.org listing the Pros and Cons of each option.
Church of Emacs: > I'm still not sure whether RevisionDelete is aimed at replacing the old > deletion schema completely, including the archive table. Could anyone > comment on that please? It's the logical evolution IMHO. > Ps.: BTW, a question that came to my mind: > Do we wish to retain our bijective Pagename -- Page relationship? (As > opposed to a model, where a new page data set is created when a user > creates a wiki page. Our current model has the flaw, that we can't > differentiate between two completely different articles that have the > same page title (e.g. if article A is deleted and someone else writes > article B with the same page title – they are treated exactly the same, > even though they are logically two different sets of revisions)) > I'm not suggesting we drift away from our current approach, just wanted > to note it has some flaws imho. They may be the same (eg. the same article recreated, page merges...) or completely different. That could be 'solved' if the parent_revs were exposed somewhere. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
