Magnus Manske wrote:

On de.wikipedia, people noticed a handful of odd revisions/dates:

http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Philadelphia_76ers&diff=prev&a... http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Adolf_Hitler&diff=prev&old... http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Regensburger_Dom&diff=prev&... http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Diskussion:Riemannsche_Mannigfalti... http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cynic&diff=prev&oldid=4909... http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Christentum&diff=prev&oldi...

In all of these, the "newer" revision has a date significantly /before/ the "older" one, more specifically, some time on January 4, 2003.

Is that just an annoyance, or an indicator of a larger problem (database corruption)? Can someone fix it, or should it just be ignored?

For some reason, some first revisions of articles have high revision numbers. In [[de:Cynic]], for example, the first revision has number 4909086, the second one 1129003, and then it grows. When you are looking at the revision with a number a little below 4.900.000, the "diff=next" will take you to the revision with the next higher number, which is the first one.

We have some pages in es: with the same problem. For example, http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythrina_crista-galli .

Magnus Manske wrote:

On de.wikipedia, people noticed a handful of odd revisions/dates:

Magnus, this is an old issue. Some servers had bad clocks for a few hours last year.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)