Author: mike.lifeguard+bugs
Description:
You should be able to test edits which are deleted if you can view the edits. Currently, deleted edits aren't returned, so you can't test filters against them. Not sure if that should be true for oversighted / sysop-can't-view revisions too... probably.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T20091 Sysops should be able to use Special:AbuseFilter/examine against deleted edits | |||
| Open | None | T186971 AbuseFilter should allow testing a filter against edits that are not in recent changes |
If they're not in the recentchanges table, it's going to be need a complete rewrite of the after-the-fact variable generation.
Marking this bug as Lowest priority.
I've done this in a batch to (usually enhancement request) bugs where:
If you're interested in having one of these bugs fixed, your best bet is to write the patch yourself.
Indeed this would be useful. We cannot rely on restoring stuff, most of the time abusive stuff, to create or finetune filters. Thanks.
This is important when a filter doesn't trigger an edit of spam, and then an admin deletes the spam page before the maintainer of the filter can review why it wasn't triggered. Once deleted you can't test the filter against that edit