Last modified: 2012-11-10 15:46:04 UTC
Hello, we hit a strange result on fr.wikipedia.org. We are wondering if this is not a database corruption. As this link ( http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php? title=Wikip%C3%A9dia:Wikip%C3% A9diens_par_sports&diff=prev&oldid=1614426 ) shows, there is an incoherence in the timeline of the modification history. I don't know if it is a real threat or not, so I have protected the page for any other modification until further information. It would be nice, if somebody could look into it in order at least to tell us if we can remove the protection or if some maintainance on the DB must be done. Thank you in advance JYP, admin on fr.wikipedia.org
The 'next' and 'previous' links in the history are very unreliable in the case of pages which have had histories merged via deletion/undeletion. Did something like that happen on that page? The earliest listed revision: http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipédia:Wikipédiens_par_sports&oldid=1614426 Fits very well by diff against the next listed revision: http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipédia:Wikipédiens_par_sports&oldid=1311881 but has a later old id number, which is often an indication of merging.
(In reply to comment #1) > The 'next' and 'previous' links in the history are very unreliable in the case of pages which have had histories merged via > deletion/undeletion. > > Did something like that happen on that page? As far as I know, no: we didn't do anything special (deleting, restauring) on this pages. > The earliest listed revision: > http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipédia:Wikipédiens_par_sports&oldid=1614426 > > Fits very well by diff against the next listed revision: > http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipédia:Wikipédiens_par_sports&oldid=1311881 > > but has a later old id number, which is often an indication of merging. If we look the history, everything looks fine. Question: is it safe to unblock this page for further use?
Looks like bug n°2219 reports the same problem. The same problem occurs on another article in the French WP : see this diff http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andr%C3%A9e_Brunin&diff=next&oldid=1448234 compared to this one : http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andr%C3%A9e_Brunin&diff=next&oldid=1595425 The dates seem to be incorrect. User:Korrigan
(In reply to comment #1) > ... but has a later old id number, which is often an indication of merging. see also bug 3630: Older revision is triggered by oldid value not by date - probably historical issue
*** Bug 14816 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
See bug 2930 and its duplicates. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2930 ***
