On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 5:04 PM, priyank bagrecha <bagi.priyank(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
I found one page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subroutine which has a
pageid 40988 in the 05-26 snapshot, but now has a pageid 32177451 in
the newer snapshot. Just wanted to know what are the circumstances
under which this happens. Is there a way in the api to know which
other pages might have had the same treatment?
From the version history:
-
2011-06-23T02:47:16<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Subroutine…
Graham87 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Graham87> m (36,108
bytes) (moved
Subprogram <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subprogram> to
Subroutine<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subroutine>over redirect:
revert)
-
2011-06-23T02:46:21<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Subroutine…
Graham87 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Graham87> m (36,108
bytes) (moved
Subroutine <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subroutine> to
Subprogram<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subprogram>am>:
history merge)
A funky merge like this (or a general delete/undelete) can create a new page
id; essentially the revisions from the old page ended up getting migrated
from one page to another, and that other page now has the title of the old
page.
-- brion