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Other Side-Effects of Database Loss

I just noticed one other odd side effect of the database problems: the servers are occasionally returning cached content, created during the missing 20 hours and containing now-non-existent data. For example, this diff on content2 is supposed to be of Template:Journal_Entries, but instead (for me at least) is showing a diff from Oblivion_talk:100% Completion of edits that no longer exist. content1, on the other hand, is showing the diff correctly. I'm fairly certain that the false information in content2's version is just coming from a cache -- I've checked the database to confirm that it does not contain any of the incorrect content.

I'm unlikely to put much time into fixing this problem (in part because understanding the caches can be nightmarish) however I thought others might want to be aware of it. --Nephele^Talk 17:18, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

That explains a lot. I saw this earlier (for a character count difference of +1, according to Recent Changes) but that one occurs on both content1 and content2. I think the "deleted" text comes from a Dstebbins edit to Oblivion:First Time Players. I guess we'll just have to put up with them for a while. –rpeh^{•T•C•E•} 17:28, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

On second thought, this might provide another way to recover some lost data (Template:Tl*, for example). The only catch is that I really need a version of recent changes from before the database loss (in order to extract the revision ID pairs that are likely to be hiding in the cache). If anyone happens to have saved any versions of recent changes, it would be really helpful if you could email me the HTML -- Special:EmailUser/Nephele, or nephele AT skyhighway DOT com. Thanks! --Nephele^Talk 17:36, 4 August 2009 (UTC)