[pmwiki-users] deleting pages

[Tegan Dowling]

If we're talking about PmWiki *installations*, and not the actual
PmWiki.orgwiki itself:

As it says on PmWiki/DeletingPages,

"...the deleted page still exists on the server (with a timestamp) and can
be restored to the former page by the wiki
administrator<http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/WikiAdministrator>
."

This restored  version will have the page's history intact. And it says

"The default word used for page deletion ("delete") can be changed in
config.php by setting the variable
$DeleteKeyPattern<http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/EditVariables#DeleteKeyPattern>(see
EditVariables <http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/EditVariables>)." so your
site's delete word doesn't ahve to be the same as anyone else's.

Finally, there's http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/DeleteAction, which
provides a recipe for requiring a password for deleting at page.


On 2/16/06, Susan <pmwiki at onebit.ca> wrote:
>
> Mikael Nilsson <mini <at> nada.kth.se> writes:
>
> >
> > lör 2006-02-11 klockan 17:24 +0100 skrev
> > christian.ridderstrom <at> gmail.com:
> > > On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Anno wrote:
> > >
> > > > I am somehow not so thrilled to see this page
> > > >
> > > > http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/DeletingPages
> > > >
> > > > as it makes it possible for a vandal to "destroy"(for display, until
> the
> > > > admin manually restores it) almost every page on the site.
> > >
> > > Um.. do you mean that you don't want users to know how to delete
> pages?
> > >
> > > Personally I think we may have to live with the risk of vandals.
> >
> > Yes, that's sort of the point with wikis. Or rather, the admin must
> > choose an approach.
> >
> > As long as anyone can edit a page, they can replace it with a single
> > space or whatever anyway, so if you have a problem with deleting, you
> > should also have a problem with edit privileges in general.
> >
> > /Mikael
>
> As I understand it, deleting a page removes the entire history, and to get
> it
> back you have to go to the backups, the copies of the files that the
> techie
> keeps in case of viruses or server crashes.
>
> Replacing the contents with something else keeps the history intact; you
> just
> have to go to the Diffs page and ask to restore.
>
> I rather like the idea of a customizable word for deleting the pages. That
> way,
> what works on your site won't work on mine, and vice versa, keeping the
> risk of
> vandalism down. Then again, I haven't looked into the delete key thing
> mentioned
> earlier, which might be easier to implement than I thought.
>
> Susan
>
>
>
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