Last modified: 2014-09-30 15:24:35 UTC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/62.253.64.xxx has contributions as the API shows: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=usercontribs&ucuser=62.253.64.xxx the delected contribs of this user are also visible https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:DeletedContributions/62.253.64.xxx , it's just Special:Contributions which is no longer able to list the user it seems.
deployment has happened but we want this fixed for the tarball.
Fixed in r112843.
I was the one who originally noted this bug at the technical village pump: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vpt#Contributions_lists_for_truncated_IP_addresses_don.27t_work_anymore I did some more testing today and discovered more cases where the contributions are no longer listed properly, because the user's edits are attached to more than one userid in the database. This usually happens because the edits were imported from the UseModWiki database in September 2002 under user ID 0 (because the accounts didn't exist then), and then other edits were imported from the Nostalgia Wikipedia later or the account was compromised. Compare this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/LarrySanger with this: http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/LarrySanger Also, the edits that are assigned to the username "0" from 2002 don't show up with Special:Contributions either, presumably because they are listed under several userids: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/special:Contributions/0 The same is true of Conversion scrip: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/conversion_script This is also true of the truncated IP address 11.105, which has many many edits due to a bug in the first version of MediaWiki (I created an account under that name to avoid impersonation): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/11.105
This was caused by r100300 (intended to allow JOINing to get user_name) by no longer searching by username but by id. I vote to revert this behavior, and make Special:Contributions search again by username (ie. rc_user_text).
*** Bug 37735 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 34862 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
It appears to be fixed now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/62.253.64.xxx shows contributions. And when testing locally on the latest master, edits by maintenance scripts (user id 0) also show up properly.
It's not, see for intance http://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/Speciaal:Bijdragen/Metr%C3%B3nomo where edits do exist: http://nl.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=1070120 You're seeing a workaround, where if there isn't an account with that name, searches by text, but if the account exists, it searches by user id. Which leads to odd situations such as the contributions you were seeing magically disappear when you login for the first time (see bug 37735).
We should really fix the DB entries. If the edits are by user X, they should be recorded as such. Maybe the import/user logic could be changed to handles this better, though it's bit tricky.
The problem is that when importing things from a different wiki, the username can be someone else. So that's why (afaik) the import system specifically does not tie edits to a user id.
(In reply to comment #10) > The problem is that when importing things from a different wiki, the username > can be someone else. So that's why (afaik) the import system specifically does > not tie edits to a user id. Right, and so why should would list the contribs of both users under the one name? Either we go all the way or don't. I'd prefer not attributing things to someone unless it is that person for sure. Such rows could perhaps be flagged and displayed slightly differently in history/RC links. If the contribs link had an extra parameter it could show header or footer about the edits being imported and list by rev_user_text = X.
.. and not to mention how to deal with imports from different wikis :D
(In reply to comment #10) > The problem is that when importing things from a different wiki, the username > can be someone else. So that's why (afaik) the import system specifically does > not tie edits to a user id. When an edit is imported using Special:Import, it is tied to a user ID if there is an account under that name. If not, it's imported as user ID 0.
And the same thing happened with the script that imported UseModWiki edits from September 2002, except many of those accounts had not yet been created, hence many of them are under user ID 0.
(In reply to comment #11) > Right, and so why should would list the contribs of both users under the one > name? Either we go all the way or don't. I'd prefer not attributing things to > someone unless it is that person for sure. Except that it is usually the same person. When they ask for contributions of Foo, we should show every edit we are attributing to Foo. Doing otherwise is inconsistent. I'm not opposed to the proposal of annotating them in an special way. We could for instance show that it it imported, and even from which page, storing it at change_tag. But they should still be shown in Special:Contributions.
*** Bug 45177 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***