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Tag page creations of previously deleted pages
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Description

There are many times where knowing that a newly created page was previously deleted is beneficial to Wikipedia editors, but finding out this information is currently a multi-step process.

We could add a new tag in the page creation log for page creations which are made at a title which was previously deleted.

The original request at this ticket was for a 'Recreated pages' Special page, but if we add a tag, Special:NewPages basically becomes this, because users can simply filter for this tag.

This feature was implemented in PageTriage (English Wikipedia-only) in T189929 - if we implemented a tag, that code could probably be removed from this software and centralised in core.

Community wishlist proposal: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist/Wishes/Mark_pages_recreated_at_the_already_deleted_title

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 22 2014, 1:48 AM
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I support it. Im admin in fa.wiki and we have same problem.

aaddira wrote:

I was just asking Elph about the possibility of generating such a list for ar wiki. It would be pretty useful for monitoring articles violating policies on any Wikipedia language or any wiki project.

arashasewiki wrote:

Also we need it in persian wikipedia. it's a common difficulty

Hi, this report is probably in the wrong place, since these are specific requests for Wikimedia projects.

CCing Andre & Philippe to see if they can help with a better destination.

Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Task" to "Feature Request".Feb 4 2022, 11:13 AM

It sounds like an actionable ask here could be a Tag that is added to a newly created page when the page had previously been deleted?

It looks like this feature was added as part of PageTriage in T189929.

Seems like T22892 is a related proposal to achieve this functionality via AbuseFilter, but it seems to me that a tag created by MediaWiki could be a better option, alongside other core tags.

Samwalton9-WMF renamed this task from Add a "Recreated pages" Special page to Tag page creations of previously deleted pages.Nov 7 2024, 5:46 PM
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Tagging @Nemoralis, @Ebrahim and @Pppery who were subscribed to T371302. What do you think about the idea I've sketched in the task description?

Seems reasonable to me

Adding a change tag would display everywhere and not just in recent changes/new pages, so removing that component.

Change #1091761 had a related patch set uploaded (by Kgraessle; author: Kgraessle):

[mediawiki/core@master] Tag page creations of previously deleted page

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1091761

There is still some outstanding code review questions, but I wanted to get some feedback around creating a store to query the log table.

Test wiki created on Patch demo by Samwalton9 (WMF) using patch(es) linked to this task:
http://patchdemo.wmcloud.org/wikis/8e1276296b/w/

This looks good! The tag shows up in Recent changes:

Screenshot 2024-12-11 at 09.22.10.png (184×1 px, 64 KB)

And the page creation log:

Screenshot 2024-12-11 at 09.22.48.png (278×1 px, 106 KB)

It can be filtered for in both venues.

Additionally it displays as expected in the page history and user contributions, and on Special:Tags.