zigger wrote:

Changed URL to one with a smaller character set and no sub-page:
http://es.wiktionary.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=ouija&diff=3971&oldid=3825

en.wiktionary.org & fr.wiktionary.org seem ok.

Many compressed old text entries are corrupt on es.wiktionary.org; it seems to be a side effect of a
botched latin-1 to UTF-8 conversion. Am trying to see if the corruption is reversible or if we have
backups...

The corruption is not reversible, as four byte values are not valid in the CP1252->UTF-8 conversion and
all are changed to the same output value. Will need to restore affected entries from backup.

I've retrieved what seems to be the pre-conversion database dump, and should be able to recover all
damaged data from it. In the meantime I've locked the wiki against further editing; should be back up
within a few hours.

I've recovered the affected revisions from backup, it looks ok.

Please let us know immediately if any further problems like this turn up!