I might be wrong, but I believe there's a legal implication to doing something like this (at least on WMF wikis) since it's removing attribution to various people who "contributed" to the article, even if it's not in the traditional sense. Also it kind of violates the basic design of MediaWiki itself, which is to keep revisions of pages.
*--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 4:04 AM, Petr Bena <benap...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > There is a number of services running on our wikis, such as english > wikipedia which are for example generating some information and > frequently update certain page with these data, (statistics etc). That > makes tons of revisions that will be never needed in future and which > will be in database with no option to remove them. > > For this reason it would be nice to have an option to create a special > page on wiki which would have only 1 revision and its data were > overwritten, so that it wouldn't eat any space in DB. I know it > doesn't look like a big issue, but there is a number of such pages, > and bots that update them generate lot of megabytes every month. Bot > operators could use for example external web server to display these > data, but these can't be transcluded using templates, like here: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation/Submissions > > What do you think about this feature? Is it worth of working on, or > this isn't a big issue? Keep in mind that even if we have a lot of > storage, these unneeded data make the dumps larger and processes that > are parsing the XML files are slower > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
