Thread:Project:Support desk/Recreate the REVISIONS table/reply (5)

When you say  table, you mean only that one, or also the   table?

Depending on what method you used to delete them all, the text table is likely still intact. That table is what contains the actual page contents.

However the revision table is what links these content versions to a page, user and timestamp.

It's going to be hard to reconstruct the history, but at least you have all the content still (although without knowing which version is what page).

You could use a combination of Google (and other caches/backups) to figure out what pages you had, and perhaps search through the text table for the actual content (by looking for a piece of text on that page).

Since Google's cache is html only, if you'd import from that directly, you loose all semantics (e.g. things that came from templates etc.,) and possibly the markup as well (e.g. headings, bold, lists etc.) though markup you could re-add manually. By then re-creating the page with the content from the text table you restore the complete and unaltered wikitext.

See also DB. Good luck!