Author: gareth.rees
Description:
See the quoted URL. MediaWiki is unable to compute this diff. When I try to load this page I get the error
message:
Fatal error [host=]: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /usr/local/apache/common-
local/php-new/includes/DifferenceEngine.php on line 436
On my local machine a "diff" of the corresponding page sources takes 0.03 seconds. This suggests that
there is a bug in the MediaWiki diff implementation.
The effect of this bug is that it may be impossible to figure out what has changed between two revisions
of a page. A clever vandal could exploit this bug to cover their tracks.
Version: unspecified
Severity: major
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=List_of_Royal_Navy_ship_names&diff=7753945&oldid=7752484