Farkas, Illes wrote:

Dear All,

I have the impression that I keep asking trivial questions ... sorry ... and please, let me know, if I should send them to a different list.

Having looked at the dump file enwiki-pages-meta-history, I found that it contains a total of five revisions for the enwiki page "American Samoa", while in the online version at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=American_Samoa&action=history&... I can see for the year 2003 alone 9 (not minor) edits, plus a number of minor edits.

Which enwiki-pages-meta-history? All those edits should appear there no matter how old the file is, but that file might be broken.

enwiki-pages-meta-history must contain all edits to all the pages. Full stop. Including minor edits, bot edits, and so on. The only thing that could change these are deletions (oversights) and page moves. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=American_Samo...

(2) what the total 5 edits for the page "American Samoa" mean in pages-meta-history

Looking at the metadata could help. Seems that something is corrupted.