Importing and some deletion related things (before rev_id was moved to the archive table) can cause a revision to get a higher rev_id than it should have
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Mihajlo Andjelkovic < michael.angelkovich@gmail.com> wrote:
Today I did some analysis over latest revisions on huwiki and there I stumbled on something that surprised me. I believed that revids were given sequentially, so that lower revision id implies an earlier date, and higher revision id implies a later date. Thus, all edits having id greater than 6.000.000 would be no older than august 2009 on huwiki. However, the following revids are anomalies to this, being set 5-6 years back in comparison to their surrounding revids:
8764880, 2004 8764883, 2005 8764884, 2005 8764885, 2005 8764886, 2005 8764887, 2005 8764904, 2004 8764905, 2004 8764906, 2005 8764907, 2005 8764908, 2005
Example: http://hu.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ornithopoda&oldid=8764883
I don't really want to ask anything, I hope I pointed out something interesting. However, if there be any comments on this, shot away. :)
M
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