It was intended to replace selective undeletion as part of a large deletion schema overhaul, which fell through, so there wasn't as much motivation to get it in use. Also, I recall some enwiki admins saying that it still needed more granularity for some hairy merge scenarios.
Brion Vibber wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Niklas Laxström > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Why is mergehistory right not enabled by default? I only found >> thiscommit >> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/27823which >> says "disabled by default for now". >> > > IIRC Aaron created that special page, left disabled by default as an > experimental feature, and I probably went "eeeeeh that sounds scary" and > we > never got back to making sure it was production-ready. > > Probably should get picked back up and polished off at some point... > > -- brion > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/History-of-mergehistory-tp32760698p32761466.html Sent from the Wikipedia Developers mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
