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Bug 18266 - Account creation log should log originating wiki
Account creation log should log originating wiki
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Classification: Unclassified
CentralAuth (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
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Assigned To: Victor Vasiliev
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Reported: 2009-03-31 02:54 UTC by Mark Pellegrini
Modified: 2013-06-18 15:38 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Mark Pellegrini 2009-03-31 02:54:03 UTC 
It is not uncommon to see accounts being automatically created these days as a result of SUL. The log entry for these accounts currently looks like this:

(Logs) . . 02:43 . . XXXXXX (talk | contribs | block) was automatically created 

The log should list the originating Wiki. That is to say, it should list the wiki on which the account was originally created.
Comment 1 Mike.lifeguard 2009-03-31 02:56:26 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> It is not uncommon to see accounts being automatically created these days as a
> result of SUL. The log entry for these accounts currently looks like this:
> 
> (Logs) . . 02:43 . . XXXXXX (talk | contribs | block) was automatically created 
> 
> The log should list the originating Wiki. That is to say, it should list the
> wiki on which the account was originally created.
> 

To be clear, you mean the home wiki as reported by CentralAuth?
Comment 2 Mark Pellegrini 2009-03-31 03:03:16 UTC 
The home wiki and the wiki reported by Centralauth are not always the same thing. Consider the case of [[user:Raul the Mark]], who recently came to the English Wikipedia (to make death threats against me). He registered on the Italian Wikipedia as reported by WatcherSUL in IRC: 

<WatcherSUL>	Raul the Mark@itwiki: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Raul%20the%20Mark

But according to the toolserver tool here - http://toolserver.org/~vvv/sulutil.php?user=Raul+the+Mark - he has no home wiki. The log should record that he registered on the Italian Wikipedia.
Comment 3 Mark Pellegrini 2011-02-03 09:56:29 UTC 
Checked this again today and it's apparently fixed.
Comment 4 Krinkle 2011-02-04 14:49:26 UTC 
(In reply to comment #3)
> Checked this again today and it's apparently fixed.

It may now correctly show up at toolserver/sulutil, but that's not what this bug is about (therefore re-opening this bug)
The reason it was wrong at the toolserver was most likely the cause of replication lag (toolserver uses a copy of the real database).

The logs created by CentralAuth (autocreate) does not mention the home wiki:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/newusers?user=Krinkle
13:08, 26 March 2009 Krinkle (talk | contribs | block) Account created automatically ‎

http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Logs&user=KrinkleSock&uselang=en
03:30, 22 July 2010 KrinkleSock (Talk | contribs) Account created automatically ‎
Comment 5 Nemo 2013-02-21 15:12:40 UTC 
Looks like a very bad idea to clutter the logs with such a useless and ephemeral piece of information as the user's homewiki, which is now visible for everyone as Special:CentralAuth anyway.
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