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Author: rosspatterson

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On the English Wikipedia, I have the [[en:GNU General Public License]] on my watchlist. This morning, the diff of the most recent version against the immediately previous version (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GNU_General_Public_License&curid=12314&diff=193460291&oldid=193225865) shows lots of errors. Most strangely, there's one line that is repeated over and over again in the new part: "[[no:GNU General Public License]]". The actual change was one line, changing the "es:" InterWiki link. Here's a diff made by copy-and-past from the edit windows of both versions into Vim and then diff'ing with GNU diff:

C:\Ross>diff -u old.txt new.txt

  • old.txt 2008-02-23 09:51:59.689334400 -0500

+++ new.txt 2008-02-23 09:52:25.977134400 -0500
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@
[[de:GNU General Public License]]
[[et:GNU GPL]]
[[el:GNU General Public License]]
-[[es:GNU GPL]]
+[[es:Licencia p·blica general de GNU]]
[[eo:GPL]]
[[eu:GNU General Public License]]
[[fa:?????????? ????? ?????? ???]]

And here's a cut and past from the Wikipedia diff page, in case the error isn't repeatable:

GNU General Public License
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Difference between revisions)Revision as of 03:34, 22 February 2008 (edit)
SundarBot (Talk | contribs)
m (robot Adding: ta:க்னூ பொதுமக்கள் உரிமம்)
← Older edit Current revision (05:27, 23 February 2008) (edit) (undo)
Alexbot (Talk | contribs) [rollback]
m (robot Modifying: es:Licencia pública general de GNU)

Line 228: Line 228:
[[af:GNU Algemene Publieke Lisensie]] [[af:GNU Algemene Publieke Lisensie]]
[[ar:رخصة جنو العمومية]] [[ar:رخصة جنو العمومية]]

  • [[bg:GNU General Public License]] + [[nn:GNU General Public License]]
  • [[ca:GPL]] + [[no:GNU General Public License]]
  • [[cs:GNU General Public License]] + [[no:GNU General Public License]]

[[cy:Trwydded Gyhoeddus Gyffredinol GNU]] [[cy:Trwydded Gyhoeddus Gyffredinol GNU]]

  • [[da:GNU General Public License]] + [[no:GNU General Public License]]
  • [[de:GNU General Public License]] + [[no:GNU General Public License]]
  • [[et:GNU GPL]] + [[no:GNU General Public License]]
  • [[el:GNU General Public License]] + [[no:GNU General Public License]]
  • [[es:GNU GPL]] + [[no:GNU General Public License]]
  • [[eo:GPL]] + [[no:GNU General Public License]]
  • [[eu:GNU General Public License]] + [[no:GNU General Public License]]

[[fa:اجازه‌نامه عمومی همگانی گنو]] [[fa:اجازه‌نامه عمومی همگانی گنو]]

  • [[fr:Licence publique générale GNU]] + [[no:GNU General Public License]]
  • [[gl:General Public License]] + [[no:GNU General Public License]]

[[ko:GNU 일반 공중 사용 허가서]] [[ko:GNU 일반 공중 사용 허가서]]

  • [[hr:GNU General Public License]] + [[no:GNU General Public License]]
  • [[ilo:GPL]] + [[no:GNU General Public License]]
  • [[id:Lisensi Publik Umum GNU]] + [[no:GNU General Public License]]
  • [[it:GNU General Public License]] + [[no:GNU General Public License]]

[[he:הרישיון הציבורי הכללי של גנו]] [[he:הרישיון הציבורי הכללי של גנו]]

  • [[ka:GNU General Public License]] + [[no:GNU General Public License]]
  • [[lt:GNU GPL]] + [[no:GNU General Public License]]
  • [[hu:GNU General Public License]] + [[no:GNU General Public License]]

[[ml:ഗ്നൂ സാര്‍വ്വജനിക അനുവാദപത്രം]] [[ml:ഗ്നൂ സാര്‍വ്വജനിക അനുവാദപത്രം]]

  • [[ms:Lesen Awam Am GNU]] + [[no:GNU General Public License]]
  • [[nl:GNU General Public License]] + [[no:GNU General Public License]]
  • [[ja:GNU General Public License]] + [[no:GNU General Public License]]

[[no:GNU General Public License]] [[no:GNU General Public License]]
[[nn:GNU General Public License]] [[nn:GNU General Public License]]


Version: unspecified
Severity: major
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GNU_General_Public_License&curid=12314&diff=193460291&oldid=193225865

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  • This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 9533 ***