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 > > _______________________________________________ > Toolserver-l mailing list ([email protected]) > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l > Posting guidelines for this list: > https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette >
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