- -- Newly deleted pages will not store text in this table,
- -- but will reference the separately existing text rows.
- -- This field is retained for backwards compatibility,
- -- so old archived pages will remain accessible after
- -- upgrading from 1.4 to 1.5.
- -- Text may be gzipped or otherwise funky.
+ -- Copied from text.old_text, for pages deleted before MediaWiki 1.5.
+ -- This row may contain the raw revision text, possibly compressed.
+ -- Newer MediaWiki versions use ar_text_id instead.
+ -- This field is retained for backwards compatibility, so that
+ -- old archived pages will remain accessible.
+ -- See migrateArchiveText.php for migrating values to text storage.