Last modified: 2014-10-25 19:15:01 UTC
Edit attribution for revisions converted from UseMod days or imported from another wiki are currently a little odd; the revision record stores an ID of 0 and the username directly. We then can end up assigning those edits to whoever registers the account name locally... which usually is correct, but sometimes not. :) It could be useful to be able to store some sort of source wiki identifier with that attribution, which might help with dealing with these cases; and might also be relevant for OpenID-type cross-wiki authentication situations. On the other hand it might be really difficult to retrofit in. Needs some pondering...
See bug 323 on the conversion issue; not marking it as a blocker here but should be considered.
Wondering if this request has simply become a WONTFIX nowadays?
(In reply to Andre Klapper from comment #2) > Wondering if this request has simply become a WONTFIX nowadays? There's quite a web of reports on this issue, if you follow the dependencies. Luis recently brought it up again, see e.g. https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Files_and_licenses_concept&diff=1198638&oldid=1198602