Last modified: 2010-05-15 15:33:47 UTC
I haven't found this problem listed here, so I post this bug message. If you create a new page and click "Save page" multiple times, and the servers are too slow, then the page is created multiple times. In august 2004, I announced the problem at wikipedia-l: http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2004-August/016566.html Since that time I am creating lists of doubled entries in some WPs. At de: they are listed and removed after every new database dump (there are around ten of them per week), but I think it is necessary to prevent the duplicates from being created. Christian aka de:Benutzer:SirJective
*** Bug 1351 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 1421 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
In newly created wikis, there is a unique index which prevents this. Older wikis have not all been updated, however...
*** Bug 1507 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 1647 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Note: http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:Allpages/%C3%87 shows both: - uppercase and lowercase c-cedil - uppercase and lowercase n-tilde Because of the capitalisation of the titles only the record with first character in uppercase can be shown. I have no clue what is happening here. Reinhardt
(In reply to comment #6) > http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especial:Allpages/%C3%87 > shows both: > > - uppercase and lowercase c-cedil > - uppercase and lowercase n-tilde > > Because of the capitalisation of the titles only the record with first character > in uppercase can be shown. > > I have no clue what is happening here. Reinhardt I guess these articles are relics from the pre-utf8-era. At the german WP we had articles starting with lower case ö (o-umlaut) and µ (greek mu). These articles had to be renamed by a developer, so we could merge their content with the other articles.
Unique index was applied to old wikis a while ago. Closing as FIXED.
*** Bug 2080 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Bug 2080 reported recent duplicate articles at pt.wiktionary.org.
The schema update in the MediaWiki 1.5 upgrade forces the addition of the proper index creation which prevents this. Any remaining wikis with bad indexes will be fixed when the upgrade goes live later this month. Resolving as FIXED.
see also bug 2382: "existence of duplicate records as a result of bug 1202"
