[OSM-talk] Changeset ignoring API limits?

[MP]

I looked at changeset
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/5853571 and I noticed
the page says "Has the following 79290 nodes: ... Has the following
15862 ways:"

Isn't there supposed to be a limit of 50000 elements per changeset
(this one contains about 95000 elements)?

I looked at http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/capabilities and I see there line:
<changesets maximum_elements="50000"/>
... so the limits weren't changed

Does anybody know how it is possible for that changeset to bypass
these API limits? Or is it some bug in the element-counting code?

Martin