Manual talk:Archive table

Undelete
To access to the Undelete interface, you MUST be connected as a known user with the administrator account.

Once connected, click on "Special pages" and go to the bottom page and click on "See the deleted pages."

ar_page_id vs ar_title + ar_namespace
Under what circumstances does ar_page_id not correspond to the same page identified by the combination of ar_namespace and ar_title? Is it just for wikis with data predating 1.11? Sam Wilson 03:43, 18 July 2017 (UTC)


 * Imagine this scenario: You delete page "Test 1" which has page id 1. Then you create the same page "Test 1" which will have page id 2 (or the next sequential received by the database). If you delete this page again you'll have different revisions on archive with the same combination of ar_namespace and ar_title but different ar_page_id. --Ciencia Al Poder (talk) 18:24, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

Has this table existed since MediaWiki 1.1?
I know that it was in MediaWiki 1.3. Setian~mw (talk) 23:46, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

No description of ar_actor?
It seems that there isn't any discription of the ar_actor row and what's its intended purpose is, could someone add that in? --TheSplatGuy (talk) 15:47, 18 July 2020 (UTC)