Importing and some deletion related things (before rev_id was moved to the
archive table) can cause a revision to get a higher rev_id than it should
have

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Mihajlo Andjelkovic <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Today I did some analysis over latest revisions on huwiki and there I
> stumbled on something that surprised me. I believed that revids were
> given sequentially, so that lower revision id implies an earlier date,
> and higher revision id implies a later date. Thus, all edits having id
> greater than 6.000.000 would be no older than august 2009 on huwiki.
> However, the following revids are anomalies to this, being set 5-6
> years back in comparison to their surrounding revids:
>
> 8764880, 2004
> 8764883, 2005
> 8764884, 2005
> 8764885, 2005
> 8764886, 2005
> 8764887, 2005
> 8764904, 2004
> 8764905, 2004
> 8764906, 2005
> 8764907, 2005
> 8764908, 2005
>
> Example:
> http://hu.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ornithopoda&oldid=8764883
>
> I don't really want to ask anything, I hope I pointed out something
> interesting. However, if there be any comments on this, shot away. :)
>
> M
>
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