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Bug 2858 - Extension to allow reattributing edits
Extension to allow reattributing edits
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Classification: Unclassified
Extensions requests (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Normal enhancement with 2 votes (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
:
: 3539 10522 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2005-07-14 18:00 UTC by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Modified: 2014-11-17 10:35 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 2005-07-14 18:00:01 UTC 
TODO: Make a special page to attribute anonymous edits to a username, the code
should be based on Special:Renameuser as the operation is similar.
Comment 1 bdk 2006-05-03 04:48:04 UTC 
*** Bug 3539 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Rob Church 2007-07-10 11:28:02 UTC 
*** Bug 10522 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Brion Vibber 2007-07-10 17:37:21 UTC 
I don't think this is really something we want to support.
Edits are attributed to the accounts that they are made with.
Comment 4 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 2007-07-10 17:52:56 UTC 
(In reply to comment #3)
> I don't think this is really something we want to support.
> Edits are attributed to the accounts that they are made with.

I think this is a bad idea for MediaWiki and definitely a very bad idea for installation on Wikimedia projects. But this is the extension request component which I think should not be closed to silly ideas:)
Comment 5 Meno25 2007-11-30 04:30:41 UTC 
Isn't this what Extension:ChangeAuthor do?

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ChangeAuthor
Comment 6 Roan Kattouw 2007-11-30 12:28:03 UTC 
(In reply to comment #5)
> Isn't this what Extension:ChangeAuthor do?
> 
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ChangeAuthor
> 
Yes.
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