On Sun, 2003-04-27 at 17:36, Richard Grevers wrote:
On 27 Apr 2003 17:45:28 -0700, Brion Vibber
<brion(a)pobox.com> gave
On Sun, 2003-04-27 at 02:32, Richard Grevers
wrote:
I came up as a bizarre on-line stub on random
page with no edit history.
Could someone check a dump or backup to see if there have been
shennanigans?
What on earth kind of shennanigans might you be thinking of?
Well, there has been talk of people deleting pages without proper
procedure. I'm not sure what remains in page history if a page is deleted
and then started anew.
The page history would show no earlier revisions, but the undeletion
archive (which I quoted in previous message) would, as would the
deletion log show the earlier deletion (and if someone tried to edit the
log to remove it, the line would be saved in the previous revision of
the log page's history).
I wouldn't have been so worried had this not come
up
in "random pages" - I though there was some mechanism to prevent stubs
appearing in random pages.
No, there is no biasing of random selection in favor or against
long/short/old/new/good/bad/well-written/obscene/obscure articles. Only
being a non-redirect in article space, and being randomly selected, is
required for such appearence.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)