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BUG MIGRATED FROM SOURCEFORGE
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=802814&group_id=34373&atid=411192
Originally submitted by Nobody/Anonymous - nobody  2003-09-09 00:58


When you blanked a page or replace its content into a
REDIRECT
some features of the maintenance pages still consider
they old content.
This is true for:
# Special:Maintenance&subfunction=mispeelings, which
see mispelling error in blanked or 'now a redirect' pages!
# Special:Maintenance&subfunction=brokenredirects,
which given nonsense results concerning blanked or 'now
a redirect' pages.

Strangely, if you replace the content with a few
character, then the result is OK. But if you make the
page blank again or make it a redirect again, the same
wrong result is returned.
From where come these result then? From the CUR table,
the top of OLD?

-- fr:Utilisateur:Looxix & en:User:Looxix

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Date: 2003-11-19 10:29
Sender: SF user vibber

Merged with [ 822057 ] What links here - well, not really

Looking at 'What links here' for [[Leon Day]] yeilds an 
odd result 
http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:
Whatlinkshere&target=Leon_Day 

It appears to be a combination of 'What links here' for 
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_Hall_of_Fame 
and http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Day . 

I could just be going crazy, however. 

-- mav




Merged with: [ 840943 ] links getting moved when moving page

I recently moved a page, and afterward all pages that 
formerly linked to the original page, were now shown (on 
whatlinkshere, and thus in the links table) as linking to 
the moved page.

See http://nl.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?
title=Speciaal:Whatlinkshere&target=Zouten for what I 
mean - almost all of those pages in reality link to 'zout' 
rather than 'zouten'.

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Date: 2003-11-25 13:06
Sender: SF user vibber

Merged with: [ 848570 ] image links not updated/removed

image links not updated/removed
When a page gets edited, the pictures on it are not
noted in the database as linking to the page.
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Date: 2003-11-26 01:21
Sender: SF user vibber

Got the image bits fixed; there was a missing DB_WRITE
parameter in the query in Title::invalidateCache which
caused the whole process to die with an error message
(unshown since the save redirects to a page view) and never
get to run the query to insert the links.

This may affect some other things as well, so hopefully
improving...
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Date: 2004-03-05 03:02
Sender: SF user vibber

The following comment was submitted in a duplicate report
#910211:

Here is an article A. It was previously moved to B and
returned to A, and contains Article C at that time.
This situation, On showing "What links here" of article
C, report contains article A twice.

Example(In Japanese Wikipedia) is here.
http://ja.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=%E7%89%B9%E5%88%A5:
Whatlinkshere&target=AIR
In this sample, "I've" shows twice.

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Date: 2004-03-05 03:14
Sender: SF user piacarrot

Merged from [ 910211 ] Duplicated entry on showing What
links here

Here is an article A. It was previously moved to B and
returned to A, and contains Article C at that time.
This situation, On showing "What links here" of article
C, report contains article A twice.

Example(In Japanese Wikipedia) is here.
http://ja.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=%E7%89%B9%E5%88%A5:Wha
tlinkshere&target=AIR
In this sample, "I've" shows twice.

-- PiaCarrot(ja&en)
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Date: 2004-03-06 23:34
Sender: SF user vibber

Duplicate [ 911124 ] Database bug with "what links here":

There is definitely a bug somewhere in the database
code which maintains the "what links here" stuff. I
was looking at [[Hypoteneuse]], a redir someone
had listed on RfD, and when I clicked on "what links
here" for that page, I noticed three links from the
"C" page - but the C page had no links to that redir.

Just recently, I was working on cleaning up double
redirs, and as I was working on cleaning up double 
redirs pointint to "Niccolò Machiavelli", the "what links
here" page for *that* came down with the same 
disease - this time, multiple entries from "International 
relations". (And I see also that "Machiavellian" is also
showing multiple links from "Niccolò Machiavelli").

Ack! Creeping bit-rot!

- jnc/Noel (jnc@lcs.mit.edu)

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Date: 2004-06-26 13:40
Sender: SF user imsop

I'm presuming this is the same problem as is causing red
links to pop up all over the place. There have recently been
problems on en: with links to the article about Wikipedia
itself, for instance, and it seems to be happening more
often than it used to. A trivial edit doesn't always fix it
anymore, either. 

Basically, I'm guessing that some database queries that
should be updating the links table aren't - perhaps
something's timing out when the server gets busy? Anyhow, I
imagine this could affect both whatlinkshere and the status
of internal links.

[in which case
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=971807&
group_id=34373&atid=411192
is a dupe]
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Date: 2004-08-07 08:56
Sender: SF user timstarling

I've put some work into fixing this kind of thing in 1.4, 
hopefully it will be fixed