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Bug 7322 - Watchlist table should use page_id not page_title

Summary:	Watchlist table should use page_id not page_title

Status: RESOLVED INVALID Product: MediaWiki Classification: Unclassified Component: Database (Other open bugs) Version: 1.8.x Hardware: All All Importance: Low enhancement (vote) Target Milestone: --- Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this! URL: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Watchl... Whiteboard: Keywords: Depends on: Blocks:   Show dependency tree / graph		Reported: 2006-09-14 14:14 UTC by Christian Neubauer Modified: 2006-09-14 14:16 UTC (History) CC List: 0 users See Also: Web browser: --- Mobile Platform: --- Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---

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Description Christian Neubauer 2006-09-14 14:14:20 UTC The watchlist table should map users to page ids and not to page titles and namespaces. This would make the system more efficient because you wouldn't have to update the watchlist whenever a page was moved. Comment 1 Brion Vibber 2006-09-14 14:16:42 UTC Not so; you still have to add the redirect, and this would make it impossible to watch deleted pages (so things would fall off the watchlist on delete/undelete). This is why it was changed from ID numbers to titles.