Aryeh Gregor wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:26 PM, O. O. <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I think this might mean that there are entries in the Redirect Table
>> where the rd_from does not correspond to a valid page_id in the Page
>> Table? I don’t know what these would be used for though.
> 
> They're probably just wrong.  The page may have been deleted and the
> redirect entry not, for some reason.  This sort of thing happens with
> denormalized data.  *In theory* everything is in transactions, so it
> shouldn't happen, except when they aren't and so it does, or they are
> and it still does somehow.

Thanks Aryeh for the explanations. Now it makes sense i.e. I should take 
these numbers with a pinch of salt, because there might be errors in the 
Wikipedia Database itself :) .

O. O.


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