On 12/14/2010 5:24 AM, Roan Kattouw wrote: > 2010/12/14 Raymond Yee <raymond....@gmail.com>: >> What happened with User:Katr67 seems to be a bit different. We can find a >> renaming event for User:Katr67 >> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=renameuser&user=&page=User:Katr67&year=&month=-1&tagfilter= >> shows >> >> 03:31, 18 September 2010 Nihonjoe (talk | contribs) renamed User:Katr67 to >> "Valfontis" (53,420 edits. Reason: WP:CHU) >> >> However, the User:Katr67 account is not deleted (as was >> User:Penrithpanthers). Instead, going to >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Katr67 redirects to >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Valfontis And we look up both users at >> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=users&ususers=Katr67|Valfontis&usprop=groups|editcount|gender|registration >> we get >> > This happens sometimes, usually due to the user being logged in while > they're being renamed or something, causing the old name to be > recreated. That doesn't seem to be the case here (timestamp mismatch) > so I'm not sure exactly what happened in this particular case; maybe > someone just recreated the account, simple as that. >
This is probably from the user rename bug where edits from users with large edit counts don't get re-attributed properly in the revision table. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17313 -- Alex (wikipedia:en:User:Mr.Z-man) _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
