Community Wishlist Survey 2021/Bots and gadgets/API for deleted title search
API for deleted title search
- Problem: Some time ago, it became possible to search the archive table for titles of deleted pages - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?prefix=%28company%29&title=Special%3AUndelete&fuzzy=1 (admins only). This functionality is not accessible through the API and therefore cannot be incorporated into bots and gadgets used by administrators. As a consequence, this limits the discoverability of reposts under a slightly different title (a very common abuse tactic).
- Who would benefit: Admins, patrollers, bot operators
- Proposed solution: See above. A module is added to the Action API that allows searching for deleted titles.
- More comments:
- Phabricator tickets: T192023
- Proposer: MER-C (talk) 17:47, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
Discussion
Voting
- Support Would be useful to have DannyS712 (talk) 18:02, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
- Support This will, for example, help salted pages from being recreated under a similar name (per nom) Opalzukor (talk) 19:40, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
- Support CrystallineLeMonde (talk) 20:22, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
- Support * Pppery * it has begun 01:53, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
- Support Sgd. —Hasley 13:41, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
- Support MER-C (talk) 20:07, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
- Support YuriNikolai (talk) 22:13, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
- Support JPxG (talk) 05:44, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
- Support Libcub (talk) 18:17, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
- Support Alexcalamaro (talk) 22:20, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
- Support It makes it easier to search for deleted pages. WikiFer msg 22:55, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
- Support — Bilorv (talk) 00:54, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
- Support Krinkle (talk) 20:21, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
- Support DGG (talk) 00:50, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
- Support -- the wub "?!" 18:25, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
- Support —Thanks for the fish! talk•contribs 22:33, 14 December 2020 (UTC)
- Support Base (talk) 19:38, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
- Support Owleksandra (talk) 19:39, 17 December 2020 (UTC)