How about requiring a password/code to go along with rev_id in order to use the tool (similar to the move to commons process?
Delta On Sunday, August 8, 2010, Mike.lifeguard <mike.lifegu...@gmail.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10-08-08 10:54 AM, DaB. wrote: >> Hello, >> At Sunday 08 August 2010 15:47:25 DaB. wrote: >>> I wanted to get an OK (or not) to return the page title, and timestamp >>> for a given deleted revid. It might also be helpful to return the >>> username. >> >> in theorie that would be no problem as long as you would respect the >> ar_deleted-field. >> But in practice it is not that easy, because many revisions, which would >> oversighted today, were simply deleted in past (I guess enwp is similar to >> dewp here). >> So I can not allow such a webtool were you insert the rev_id and get the >> page_name back. But as far as I understand you, the main-usage for your >> webtool would be to fix a corrupt database for a bot; so why not just fix the >> database with data from the toolserver, without providing the data to the >> world (that would be ok for me)? >> >> Sincerly, >> DaB. > > Well, it is useful information to be able to get for sysops... hence the > bug report against MediaWiki. Hopefully the software will give such > information directly - it is needed. > > But in reality, I was asked to do it as a web tool, and it was just > easier for me that way. The process needing information will be on > another server, so a GET is obviously very simple to do. I'll look at > other ways of accomplishing this if you insist. > > - -Mike > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkxev4kACgkQst0AR/DaKHufWACfaSvwrmDuhvwe1h3wfTSUcBaD > VcgAoLagCyB0lZ/oC7XJFqMaeOrrFEFw > =J2NE > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l > Posting guidelines for this list: > https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette > _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette
