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Bug 10913 - High values of "offset" parameter in logs don't work
High values of "offset" parameter in logs don't work
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 5446
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Special pages (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Normal minor (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Depends on: 10932
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Reported: 2007-08-14 07:07 UTC by Mike.Rosoft
Modified: 2008-03-15 03:10 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Mike.Rosoft 2007-08-14 07:07:48 UTC
I have been looking through the user creation log in order to discover possible sockpuppets of a vandal I have blocked, and discovered that I can't go more than one day into the past: offset values over 10000 don't work; instead, clicking on "next 500" repeats the same page. (Artifically changing "limit=500" to "limit=5000" in the URL does display more users, so this can't be caused by a software limitation that older users are no longer in the database.)

To reproduce:
1) View any log with over 10000 entries. Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=&user=Mike+Rosoft&page= - log of my admin actions.
2) Add (or replace) "&offset=10000" in the URL (or, if you have a lot of free time, go to that page manually by repeatedly clicking on "next 500"). Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=&user=Mike+Rosoft&page=&offset=10000
3) Now click on "next 50" (or "next 500", etc.) link; it'll display the same page instead of going further into the past.

Switching from Mozilla Firefox to Internet Explorer made no difference, so it can't be a browser bug either.


Mike Rosoft
Comment 1 Aaron Schulz 2007-08-14 07:09:06 UTC
This is due to $wgMiserMode. The way logs page is not efficient, and high values use up a lot of resources to query. I suppose timestamp paging is in order.
Comment 2 Robert Rohde 2007-11-03 20:41:59 UTC
I encountered this today, and would encourage someone to fix it.  I was trying to review someone's deletion log and 10000 deletions only got me back to this September, which wasn't long enough to get at the question I wanted.  (Of course it must be rare to have 10,000 deletions in 6 weeks, but it apparently does happen.)
Comment 3 Aaron Schulz 2007-11-03 20:53:54 UTC
Also, timestamp offset actually is useful when trying to link pages to it, whereas the links for the current method are unstable.
Comment 4 Korg 2008-03-15 03:10:26 UTC
See bug 5446: Allow timestamps to be used as offsets in log pages

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 5446 ***

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