If we're talking about PmWiki *installations*, and not the actual PmWiki.org wiki itself:<br>
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As it says on PmWiki/DeletingPages,<br>
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"...the deleted page still exists on the
server (with a timestamp) and can be restored to the former page by the
<a class="wikilink" href="http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/WikiAdministrator">wiki administrator</a>."<br>
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This restored version will have the page's history intact. And it says<br>
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"The default word used for page deletion ("delete") can be changed in config.php by setting the variable <a class="varlink" href="http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/EditVariables#DeleteKeyPattern"><code class="varlink">
$DeleteKeyPattern</code></a> (see <a class="wikilink" href="http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/EditVariables">EditVariables</a>)." so your site's delete word doesn't ahve to be the same as anyone else's.<br>
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Finally, there's <a href="http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/DeleteAction">http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/DeleteAction</a>,
which provides a recipe for requiring a password for deleting at page.<br>
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/16/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Susan</b> <<a href="mailto:pmwiki@onebit.ca">pmwiki@onebit.ca</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Mikael Nilsson <mini <at> <a href="http://nada.kth.se">nada.kth.se</a>> writes:<br><br>><br>> lör 2006-02-11 klockan 17:24 +0100 skrev<br>> christian.ridderstrom <at> <a href="http://gmail.com">
gmail.com</a>:<br>> > On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Anno wrote:<br>> ><br>> > > I am somehow not so thrilled to see this page<br>> > ><br>> > > <a href="http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/DeletingPages">
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/DeletingPages</a><br>> > ><br>> > > as it makes it possible for a vandal to "destroy"(for display, until the<br>> > > admin manually restores it) almost every page on the site.
<br>> ><br>> > Um.. do you mean that you don't want users to know how to delete pages?<br>> ><br>> > Personally I think we may have to live with the risk of vandals.<br>><br>> Yes, that's sort of the point with wikis. Or rather, the admin must
<br>> choose an approach.<br>><br>> As long as anyone can edit a page, they can replace it with a single<br>> space or whatever anyway, so if you have a problem with deleting, you<br>> should also have a problem with edit privileges in general.
<br>><br>> /Mikael<br><br>As I understand it, deleting a page removes the entire history, and to get it<br>back you have to go to the backups, the copies of the files that the techie<br>keeps in case of viruses or server crashes.
<br><br>Replacing the contents with something else keeps the history intact; you just<br>have to go to the Diffs page and ask to restore.<br><br>I rather like the idea of a customizable word for deleting the pages. That way,
<br>what works on your site won't work on mine, and vice versa, keeping the risk of<br>vandalism down. Then again, I haven't looked into the delete key thing mentioned<br>earlier, which might be easier to implement than I thought.
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