On 20 February 2013 12:11, Andre Klapper <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-02-20 at 12:08 +0000, Thomas Dalton wrote:
>> I've just had a colleague send me links to a couple of English
>> Wikipedia articles that were displaying as complete garbage - it
>> looked like corrupt character encoding or something (there was no UI -
>> just a page full of random characters and boxes). Running
>> ?action=purge on them sorted it out, but if he hit upon two corrupted
>> pages in a few minutes, there are probably more.
>>
>> Does anyone know anything about it?
>
> Not without a testcase (URL) to start investigating. :)

I've fixed the ones I know about, so I don't know if they'll be much
help (which is why I didn't specify them before). If it does help,
they were:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Clark_Warren
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_Schwartz

(You can draw your own conclusions from my colleague's office reading habits!)

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