On Nov 27, 2004, at 10:19 PM, Brion Vibber wrote:
A bunch of compressed old entries on
es.wiktionary.org
are corrupted.
For example, history entries on the Portada are corrupt from June 16
through August 11 and September 24 through October 25.
It seems shaihulud converted this wiki from latin-1 to UTF-8 on
November 14. Some (but not all) old entries were compressed at the
time, and the compressed byte streams were damaged by the conversion
script. (This corrupt is not reversible, as there are four byte values
which get converted to the same sequence indicating an invalid
character.)
I've found the backup dump used to make the conversion and should be
able to recover all damaged entries from it.
es.wiktionary.org is
locked to new edits temporarily; it should be back up within a few
hours.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)