[MediaWiki-l] A couple of basic question about users

2012-09-04 Thread Patricia Barden
Hello: I've looked around for the answers to these questions but have not found any solutions or suggestions. 1) When looking at Special Page User list, I noticed that some users have a created on date beside their user name like: Some User (Created on 22 March 2007 at 14:02) And some do

Re: [MediaWiki-l] A couple of basic question about users

2012-09-04 Thread Brion Vibber
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Patricia Barden patri...@prwatch.orgwrote: Hello: I've looked around for the answers to these questions but have not found any solutions or suggestions. 1) When looking at Special Page User list, I noticed that some users have a created on date beside

Re: [MediaWiki-l] A couple of basic question about users

2012-09-04 Thread Benjamin Lees
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com wrote: If you go back far enough you may find user accounts created under versions of MediaWiki that didn't record the account creation date; this is probably what you're seeing. There has to be more to it than that. The creation

Re: [MediaWiki-l] A couple of basic question about users

2012-09-04 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 11:09 PM, Benjamin Lees emufarm...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com wrote: H, not sure if there's a reliable one. You can check if user_touched has been updated BUT this gets updated for things like people leaving messages

Re: [MediaWiki-l] A couple of basic question about users

2012-09-04 Thread Brion Vibber
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Benjamin Lees emufarm...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Brion Vibber br...@pobox.com wrote: If you go back far enough you may find user accounts created under versions of MediaWiki that didn't record the account creation date; this is