On Wed, 27 Aug 2025 at 09:13, Maciej Jaros <[email protected]> wrote: > Note that this is not documented at all in the manual: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Recentchanges_table#rc_type > > I mean neither supposed depreciation nor current removal. > > - I assume there should a version range in like 1.23 – 1.40 or > something. > - And note how e.g. rc_comment has info "(deprecated in 1.30); > rc_comment_id and the comment table should be used instead! " > > That's unfortunate; no-one seems to have updated that documentation in the last decade for this, indeed. I have corrected this: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?diff=7842293&oldid=7810049&title=Manual:Recentchanges_table
> > > So it doesn't seem like the columns were effectively deprecated. > No, that's not correct. They have been announced in the official venue for all such changes; for example, here is the one done in 2013 for rc_type: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/mediawiki/core/+/refs/tags/REL1_23/RELEASE-NOTES-1.23#544 See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Stable_interface_policy for the policy. The on-wiki fork of the documentation is not how code is announced or deprecated. Relying on the unofficial re-writes of code risks mis-matches like this, unfortunately. Yours, -- *James D. Forrester* (he/him <http://pronoun.is/he> or they/themself <http://pronoun.is/they/.../themself>) Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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