[pmwiki-users] (again) Restore deleted page at pmwiki.org

[christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com]

On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 11:51:00AM +0100, christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com wrote:
> > Someone has deleted the page
> > 	http://pmwiki.org/wiki/M6A/M6A
> > again... 
> 
> Restored.

Thanks!

> > Besides asking you to unerase it, this makes me think of some things 
> > that'd be useful here:
> > 
> > * It'd be useful to see who deleted it (IP-number most likely if there's 
> >   no name)
> 
> Yes, but it's not entirely clear where that information should go to be
> accessible.

Do you mean that it's not obvious where this information should be stored?
I'm probably slow today, but why wasn't this part of the information added
to RecentChanges... or is it that we shouldn't log IP numbers in that way?

> > * It'd be useful if you could add a comment when you delete a page.
> >   Then you could add something like: "See bla bla instead" or perhaps 
> >   "This page is just a lot spam"
> 
> The "Summary" line when a page is deleted appears in the recent changes
> pages, same as when the page is saved.  Or did you have something else
> in mind...?

Duh... no you're quite right. Adding a motivation for why you delete the 
page to the "Summary" is a very good solution. I added a paragraph about 
this here:

	http://pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/DeletingPages

I also added a paragraph about how you can look at RecentChanges to see if 
a page has been deleted.

> > * It'd be useful if a page can be protected from deletion (but not 
> >   editing)
> 
> Normally this is done by changing the $DeleteKeyPattern to prevent
> or restrict deletion from the default.  I can see about doing that
> for select groups on pmwiki.org if you'd like.

I was thinking in general here. For this particular page I'll just 
add an edit password.

However, maybe it'd be useful in general to allow a special password for 
deleting a page?  The password hierarchy I'm thinking about would then be 
as follows:

	delete access => edit access => read access

In other words, you might be able to edit the page without being allowed
to delete it. As a result, users can be allowed to edit a page and make
changes, but they can't delete it and thereby break the history of the
page.

/Christian

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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44               http://www.md.kth.se/~chr