There appears to have been an incident in 2008 where Wikipedia was
disrupted for half an hour by deleting the enwiki Wikipedia:Sandbox
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sandbox> page, which has a lot
of revisions. After this, the 5000 revision limit was coded in. More info:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_process#Pages_with_many_revisions
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_stocks#Scientizzle_for_the_Baby_and_Bathwater_award
*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)/Archive_16#Deletion_restrictions_for_pages_with_long_histories
Hope that helps. Thanks and have a great day.
Novem Linguae
On 8/23/2022 4:42 AM, Martin Domdey wrote:
Thanks for your reply.
No, it's a portal service page with bot stuff only and without notable
history at all.
But how can a 5000+ page deletion crash any of your servers? In my
opinion happens not much in databases.
All the best,
Martin
Thiemo Kreuz <[email protected]> schrieb am Di., 23. Aug.
2022, 13:35:
5000 is a very common limit that's all over MediaWiki (APIs and such)
simply to not crash our servers. Which page is it? Usually pages with
any notable history are turned into redirects and not deleted.
Kind regards
Thiemo
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