On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 5:04 PM, priyank bagrecha <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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 the same treatment? > >From the version history: - 2011-06-23T02:47:16<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Subroutine&oldid=435745170> Graham87 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Graham87> m (36,108 bytes) (moved Subprogram <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subprogram> to Subroutine<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subroutine>over redirect: revert) - 2011-06-23T02:46:21<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Subroutine&oldid=435745068> Graham87 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Graham87> m (36,108 bytes) (moved Subroutine <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subroutine> to Subprogram<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subprogram>: history merge) 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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
