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Old Dec 29, 2011 | 1:18 pm
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Originally Posted by mritty
A few weeks back, I spent a bit of time adding a new chart to the Wiki FAQ regarding what category of points are redeemable vs TQPs vs CPQPs. Not only is that chart no longer in the FAQ, viewing this history of the Wiki shows that my changes never existed at all. What happened? Did the server lose all the data, and had to restore from a 2 month old backup or something?
Drop an email to mikel at insideflyer, since he apparently did the last edit (reverting a spam post) on Dec 1. Probably they did lose the database and had to restore the Dec 1 version.

This is one of those unpleasant things that happen with Wikis. Ideally you should keep a local copy of anything major that you post. The only good news is that these things are much faster to re-create than to create off the top of your head the first time, generally by a factor of 2 to 3.
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