Do you happen to have a list of the extensions that were installed on that wiki?

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On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 3:19 PM Brian Wolff <bawo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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]] <mediaw...@kghoffmeyer.de> 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/
>>
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