https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19990
Summary: text of revisions in the archive table that were deleted
before Wikipedia started using MediaWiki 1.5 is corrupt
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clearwater_Riv
er_(Idaho)&dir=prev&limit=16&action=history
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Keywords: shell
Severity: major
Priority: Normal
Component: History/Diffs
AssignedTo: wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
ReportedBy: graha...@jazi.net
I was checking through deleted revisions in the main namespace by Conversion
script on the English Wikipedia, to find old deleted edits to history merge:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?limit=500&title=Special%3ADeletedContributions&target=Conversion+script&namespace=0
I found that in all pages deleted before Wikipedia was upgraded to MediaWiki
1.5 (late June 2005), all edits besides the latest one are corrupt. An
undeleted example of these edits can be found above; the edits were previously
at the title "Clearwater River, Idaho", and I history merged them to the
existing article "Clearwater River(Idaho)". Another example involves the page
about Michael Collins:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael_Collins&dir=prev&limit=6&action=history
The edits were previously at the title "Michael Collins (disambiguation)".
Even though 99.9% of the text in these old deleted archives is garbage, the
other 0.1% is very important page history and it should not be corrupted.
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