[Developers] Flip-flopping Wikipedia keys

[Brian Karlak]

Hello Phillip --

This is a known corner case for wikipedia articles that have undergone  
repeated merges & splits on the wikipedia side (DM-250).  In these  
cases, the key relationships get tangled enough that we can't properly  
resolve the target article.

We have a new version of topic updater in the wings that should  
prevent this issue from occurring in the future, and resolve all the  
old issues while it's at it.  It should be available in ~2 weeks.

Brian

On Jun 2, 2009, at 8:16 AM, Philip Kendall wrote:

> I'm just bringing this up here as I've now seen it on a couple of
> articles (/en/hamburg and /en/stockholm): it seems that the Wikipedia
> bot is changing the (numeric) Wikipedia keys on these articles from
> one to another and then changing it back again two weeks to a month
> later.
>
> Is this a bug?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Phil
>
> -- 
>  Philip Kendall <philip at shadowmagic.org.uk>
>  http://www.shadowmagic.org.uk/
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