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.


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