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...
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.
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.
On 9/12/07, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
Because complete pages are saved, not diffs, I don't know how such a thing could have happened without it being user-error.
It was a new section, so it could have gotten the wrong page parameter somehow in the POST, by the time it got to PHP. Not that it seems likely, unless this starts happening all over the place.
George Herbert 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...
It's not a DB burp, whatever it is -- I have a log entry showing that the URL used to save the page was for [[Talk:Commercial...]]. So the problem is further towards the client than MediaWiki -- i.e. apache, squid or user. My money's on the user.
-- Tim Starling
On 9/12/07, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
George Herbert 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...
It's not a DB burp, whatever it is -- I have a log entry showing that the URL used to save the page was for [[Talk:Commercial...]]. So the problem is further towards the client than MediaWiki -- i.e. apache, squid or user. My money's on the user.
-- Tim Starling
Ok. My apologies for the false alarm then. Thanks for checking.
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