Last modified: 2011-01-25 01:16:06 UTC
Special:Protectedpages does not show pages that were protected prior to late January. It probably did not inherit all the pages that were protected prior to the creation of the special page or its activation. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jesus&action=unprotect was last protected 5 January 2007 but does not appear. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blog&action=unprotect was last protected 26 November 2006 but does not appear. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=BonziBUDDY&action=unprotect was protected 12 September 2006 but does not appear. More can be found by clicking around at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_protected_pages/Long-term_protection and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_protected_pages
It only queries the new protection table, whereas older protections where crammed into one column of the page table. They are still checked for protection status but not for protected pages.
I guess we could just do a fix specifically for Protectedpages, but it seems more sensible to fix all the new stuff without having to indefinitely maintain references to the obsolete page columns, so I've repurposed this bug a bit to a specific solution.
*** Bug 9648 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I've added maintenance script to do this.
*** Bug 10395 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #4) > I've added maintenance script to do this. Looks good. Moving product to Wikimedia to get this done on live sites.
*** Bug 14891 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Running now...
Done!
Not done! Encountered errors :D
Added some deadlock protection and completed.