[Wikipedia-l] Serious bugs in "move page" function!

[Karen AKA Kajikit]

"Brion L. VIBBER" wrote:
> 
> The "move this page" feature currently has a bug that resets the
> timestamp for all old edits to the current time. Another bug in the
> history list function causes most of the edits to disappear when looking
> at the history for a page that has been moved this way, as the edits
> were being sorted by timestamp... the edit that should terminate the
> list comes up first instead, and it's prematurely cut off.
> 
> I've just submitted to CVS fixes for these to special_movepage.php and
> special_dohistory.php; I highly recommend that at least these two files
> be updated on the running 'pedia as soon as possible, and that people
> refrain from using the "move" feature until this is done.
> 
> Note that old edits and authorship information are _not_ lost from the
> database, but the times that the edits were made are lost.

Darn... and it's such a handy function too. Hope it's fixed soon. 

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