Last modified: 2006-05-05 12:19:52 UTC
Since undeletion is basically undoing another admin's action, it would be nice if it were possible to enter an edit summary when undeleting anything. This would then show up in the deletion log, along with the edit summaries for deleting things. E.g. "history undeletion", or "VFU consensus" or "misreading of CSD#G3". Presently admins tend to perform a null edit after undeletion in order to present their reasoning, if they want. But those don't appear in the deletion log, of course.
*** Bug 3372 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 1209 [details] Patch from Phroziac over on the other bug; uploading here in appropriate format
Created attachment 1210 [details] Patch from Phroziac over on the other bug; uploading here in appropriate format (part two)
This patch mixes UI code into the backend; needs a little work. The UndeleteForm class should be checking the request for variables, and then pass the reason if given on to the backend class PageArchive. PageArchive could be used in a batch operation or other specialized case, so you should not assume that $wgRequest will belong to an UndeleteForm in the other class. It would probably be good also to be consistent about the form field naming; this form seems to be using mostly plain names, so 'reason' might be better than 'mReason'.
Added in SVN trunk, r14090.
