[Wikipedia-l] Re: Patch to install?

Wed Sep 26 05:43:29 UTC 2001

Yes, I think we can change that setting so that we keep all revisions.
Disk space will ultimately be an issue, I think.  Also, I suppose
generating the 'Other Revisions' page will become unruly once there
are thousands of revisions, so some staggered display of those (100 at
a time, say) might be called for.

lsanger at nupedia.com wrote:

> >From my Wikipedia page:
> 
> Larry - why is it that in some cases older revisions are not listed in the
> "Other Revisions" view of a page? Are these still available? It would be
> valuable to be able to refer to the complete change history of a page, for
> a variety of reasons. (For example, when creating an entry for a page for
> Wikipedia_NEWS, I like to check the history of the topic, and this is
> tough when it shows only revisions 50-57.) -- BryceHarrington
> 
> I don't know, and I wish somebody would tell me. I totally agree. The
> complete change history of a page seems invaluable. Maybe you could raise
> the issue on Wikipedia-L? That seems like a good place to talk about it.
> --LMS
> 
> Here's a patch that I think would work...: (applied to version 0.92)
> 
> 
>  101d100
>  < $ExpireFiles? = 0;       # 1 = expire old rev's,   0 = keep all back
> rev's
>  3280,3282c3279
>  <   if ($ExpireFiles?) {
>  <       &ExpireKeepFile?();
>  <   }
>  ---
>  >   &ExpireKeepFile?();
> 
> 

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