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Bug 18209 - Provide consistent native way to attribute offsite users in revision history
Provide consistent native way to attribute offsite users in revision history
Status: NEW
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Database (Other open bugs)
unspecified
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: Low enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Blocks: 7240
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Reported: 2009-03-27 21:08 UTC by Brion Vibber
Modified: 2014-10-25 19:15 UTC (History)
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Description Brion Vibber 2009-03-27 21:08:45 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...
Comment 1 Brion Vibber 2009-03-30 21:28:02 UTC
See bug 323 on the conversion issue; not marking it as a blocker here but should be considered.
Comment 2 Andre Klapper 2014-10-25 18:42:16 UTC
Wondering if this request has simply become a WONTFIX nowadays?
Comment 3 Nemo 2014-10-25 19:15:01 UTC
(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

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