It seems somewhere along the way pywikipedia-l got removed, therefore forwarding this message, which might be interesting: The problem seems to not be bot-specific, if it happened that a 'normal' user got to the page before a bot, he would have seen something very unusual too.
André Engels ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Andre Engels <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:13 AM Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] serious interwiki.py issues on MW 1.18 wikis To: Wikimedia developers <[email protected]> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Ariel T. Glenn <[email protected]> wrote: > Out of curiosity... If the new revisions of one of these badly edited > pages are deleted, leaving the top revision as the one just before the > bad iw bot edit, does a rerun of the bot on the page fail? > I did a test, and the result was very interesting, which might point to the cause of this bug: I deleted the page [[nl:Blankenbach]], then restored the 2 versions before the problematic bot edit. When now I look at the page, instead of the page content I get: In de database is geen inhoud aangetroffen voor de pagina met . Dit kan voorkomen als u een verouderde verwijzing naar het verschil tussen twee versies van een pagina volgt of een versie opvraagt die is verwijderd. Als dit niet het geval is, hebt u wellicht een fout in de software gevonden. Maak hiervan melding bij een systeembeheerder<http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciaal:Gebruikerslijst/sysop>van Wikipedia en vermeld daarbij de URL van deze pagina. Going to the specific version that after the deletion-and-partial-restore should be the newest ( http://nl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blankenbach&oldid=10676248), it claims that there is a newer version, but going to the newer version or the newest version, I get the abovementioned message again. As an extra test, I did the delete-then-restore-some-versions-but-not-the-most-recent action with another page (http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gebruiker:Andre_Engels/Test), and there I found no such problem. From this I conclude that the bug has not been caused by that process, but that for some reason the page had a wrong (or empty) version number for its 'most recent' version, or something like that. -- André Engels, [email protected] -- André Engels, [email protected]
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