this explanation should be in the documentation ;) anyway I guess I need to use both of them?
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 8:22 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 4:11 AM, Brian Wolff <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I believe starttimestamp is just any edit after this point is a conflict, >> where base timestamp should match the timestamp of the base revision. Thus >> the difference between them is you give them different values. >> > > basetimestamp corresponds to wpEdittime in the web UI. If this doesn't > match the top revision's timestamp, it is an edit conflict (which might be > automatically resolved, just as with the web UI). Omitting it prevents any > detection of such edit conflicts, meaning you're likely to just overwrite > someone else's edit. > > starttimestamp corresponds to wpStarttime in the web UI. It is used to > detect situations such as "article was deleted since I started editing it". > Omitting it means that you might recreate an article that has been deleted, > or restore the deleted version if the article was deleted and then > partially restored. > > > -- > Brad Jorsch (Anomie) > Software Engineer > Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
