A funky merge like this (or a general delete/undelete) can create a new page
id; essentially the revisions from the old page ended up getting migrated
from one page to another, and that other page now has the title of the old
page.
-- brion
Another case is when the old page gets deleted and
I found one page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subroutine which has a
pageid 40988 in the 05-26 snapshot, but now has a pageid 32177451 in
the newer snapshot. Just wanted to know what are the circumstances
under which this happens. Is there a way in the api to know which
other pages might have had
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 5:04 PM, priyank bagrecha bagi.priy...@gmail.comwrote:
I found one page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subroutine which has a
pageid 40988 in the 05-26 snapshot, but now has a pageid 32177451 in
the newer snapshot. Just wanted to know what are the circumstances
under
