On 9/12/07, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/12/07, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
I just spotted an edit ( http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Commercial_Orbital_Transporta... ) that makes me wonder if we just had a DB burp. The IP author appears to be responding there to earlier comments on Talk:Muhammad (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/213.6.228.77 ). I happen to have both pages watchlisted and have given a minor warning to the IP earlier today, and noticed the bizarre landing spot for the second edit...
Because complete pages are saved, not diffs, I don't know how such a thing could have happened without it being user-error.
As I recall, we had some bizarre content-showing-up-in-the-middle-of-other-page errors when we had a big database corruption... six months? a year? ago.
That's what it made me think of. If I'm wrong, *shrug*, sorry to have bothered everyone. But it looks like what I remember of that incident.
This could be user error, but it just seems such a bizarre user error, unless this IP is wikistalking me. I have a couple of IP ranges doing that to me today, but they're located in a different geographical region, I think.