As far as i know mediawiki core has never used views. It is possible some extension made it, but it would be an unusual thing to do (for example the UserSnoop extension makes a view, but not named that). Or maybe a sysadmin made it for their own purposes at some point.
-- Brian On Friday, March 24, 2023, [[kgh]] <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Taavi, > > Thanks for the pointer. I got this automatically when dumping the database > of a rather old version of MediaWiki. Was something like this in pre-1.23 > MediaWiki? It would be a surprise, but one never knows. > > Cheers, Karsten > > > Am 24.03.23 um 18:11 schrieb Taavi Väänänen: > >> That's a MariaDB view[0] definition. Looks like that one might have been >> used to give someone access to the `page`.`page_title` and >> `page`.`page_counter` fields without giving them access to the rest of the >> page data. Hard to say anything more specific without knowing where you've >> got that from. >> >> [0]: https://mariadb.com/kb/en/views/ >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists > .wikimedia.org/
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