The proposal so far plans to have a mw_gadget table in which the current state of things is stored. There is no history and it's not on a wiki page, but in the database. This gives many advantages (hence we choose it). However, all actions are logged.
The down side to this:
- Either we get very long log messages or some info will simply not be retrievable from the past
- Hard to revert/undo
- Impossible to add to watchlist or show a diff
On the other hand, it's not a whole lot different from any of these:
- Block
- Delete
- Protect
- Patrol
- Rollback
- Move
All of these only leave a log-entry with details but not descriptive revision that is revertable or diff-able (they do leave null-revisions in some cases). Although these may not justify a lack, it may be worth considering to just keep the plan the way it was (eg. not creating mw_gadget_revision + all the complications [1].
What do you think: Current-state table with logging ? Or revisioned ? Something else ?
- ↑ complications, or perhaps feature-ideas: history view, diff view, possibly revdel and watchlist