Jeff Kubina wrote:
> Thanks for the help, but I'm still a bit confused about this case: in
> enwiki-20090714-stub-meta-history.xml the AmericanSamoa page has a pageId of
> 6; as shown below. But, in enwiki-20090914-stub-meta-history.xml it has an
> id of 23741520 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export/AmericanSamoa>,
> with only the last edit history entry. So what happen? Is this an example of
> a delete, then restore with a new id? Why are the older revisions missing or
> does a restore only restore the latest revision?

See http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=AmericanSamoa

There was a quite a bit of deletion move and undeletion trickery to move
the first revision on the XML (the one from office.bomis.com) to the
history of American_Samoa.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=American_Samoa&oldid=233188

Seems AmericanSamoa page id was recreated during that.

There's another id oddness on that page, since that office edit is from
January 2001 and has id 233188. It has listed (wrongly) as previous on
the diff links one from July 2002 with revid of 205006.
It is listed as previous because 205006 < 233188. That older revision
has a newer revid because originally, only current version of articles
were imported from UseModWiki (those that are tagged as from Conversion
script). Older edits like this one were imported later, after that
205006 edit was made.


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