[WikiEN-l] Re: Undeletions

Mon Sep 1 19:34:49 UTC 2003

Erik Moeller wrote:

>Many months ago I made myself a little custom keyword for undeleting pages:
>http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/keywords.html
>When I want to do so, I just type "und page_name". While this is a hack
>and you are correct that a proper action log table and a redesigned
>undeletion interface would be preferable, I do not see the information
>that deleted revisions exist as so useful as to have it on all pages,
>primarily because there's simply a fairly large number of pages which have
>been experimentally created at one point, deleted, and recreated.

I've decided that I like having this, including for the recreated pages.
It can still be a configurable option; no reason for us not to both be happy.

>How about displaying it in the top bar only for non-existing pages, and
>otherwise displaying it only on "Page history"? This should also reduce
>the number of checks in the ARCHIVE table needed.

(This would also be just fine with me.)

-- Toby