In Commons there is a bunch of broken/corrupt/missing files (most old versions of the same file).
2012/11/11 MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> > Hi. > > Is there a policy or guideline about the level to which Wikimedia wikis > care > about data integrity? There are a few specific cases I'm talking about: > > * edits or other logged actions with a wrong timestamp; > * incomplete user renames (contributions split between two accounts); > * weird entries in various *links tables (categorylinks, pagelinks, etc.); > * weird entries in various non-links tables (page, user, etc.); and > * revisions with weird user_id (page import bug, I think?). > > This has come up in the context of some old Bugzilla bugs about edits with > the wrong timestamp. There's been some recent activity to mark at least > some > of these old bugs as "wontfix". And perhaps this makes sense, given that > some of them are very old and it may be quite likely that nobody will ever > go back and tweak the old revision timestamps. > > But I'm left wondering if there's anything concrete in this area to guide > the other Bugzilla bugs, such as the bugs about botched user renames or > *links tables having orphaned or invalid entries. And to some degree, > there's a human component too, I suppose. An edit with a bad timestamp > isn't > a big deal; breaking a user's account simply because they have a lot of > edits is a much bigger deal. So there's some level of triaging to be done. > > I see a lot of these issues as falling under general "database integrity". > Is there a page on MediaWiki.org or Meta-Wiki that discusses this > particular > issue? > > I believe <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16660> > ("Database > table cleanup (tracking)") is the relevant tracking bug for most of what > I'm > describing. > > MZMcBride > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- Emilio J. RodrÃguez-Posada http://LibreFind.org - The wiki search engine _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
