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Bug 38553 - Article is wrongly attributed to user 0 as creator
Article is wrongly attributed to user 0 as creator
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Classification: Unclassified
PageCuration (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Unprioritized normal (vote)
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Assigned To: bsitu
: patch-need-review
Depends on:
Blocks:
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Reported: 2012-07-21 15:29 UTC by Sumana Harihareswara
Modified: 2012-08-09 23:32 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---


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in new pages feed, edit count for a user is missing (163.85 KB, image/png)
2012-07-21 15:29 UTC, Sumana Harihareswara
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Description Sumana Harihareswara 2012-07-21 15:29:36 UTC
Created attachment 10868 [details]
in new pages feed, edit count for a user is missing

I see in the feed right now, waiting to be reviewed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amitabh_Bachchan

listed as:

Amitabh Bachchan (hist) · 59801 bytes · 100+ edits · 33 categories
By 0 (talk · contribs) 

When I look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/0 and https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amitabh_Bachchan&dir=prev&limit=500&action=history , I see that the user 0 did not create this article.  IP address (?) 203.200.84.xxx created it at 12:45, 5 September 2001, and then at 15:51, 25 February 2002, "‎user 0" did an automated conversion.  I suspect this wasn't really the user who currently goes by username 0, but some kind of automated process running as a user with internal userid zero.

(Attaching a screenshot of the reason why I noticed this -- the edit count was missing.)
Comment 1 Platonides 2012-07-21 15:37:00 UTC
The edition of 0 shows as the first revision when paging. There's something weird there:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amitabh_Bachchan&oldid=57756 <- 0 at 15:51, 25 February 2002
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amitabh_Bachchan&oldid=148343 <- Tobias at 03:01, 22 July 2002
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amitabh_Bachchan&oldid=235586 <- 203.200.84.xxx at 12:45, 5 September 2001

I guess it is paging by rev_id instead of rev_timestamp?
Comment 2 Ryan Kaldari 2012-07-23 18:57:10 UTC
In this case, both user 0 (the migration script) and user 203.200.84.xxx created the article. The question is what type of "creation" are we wanting? For the purposes of PageTriage, I think we want to use the "actual" creator (user 203.200.84.xxx), rather than the "technical" creator (user 0).
Comment 3 bsitu 2012-07-23 20:44:37 UTC
Fixed in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/16447/

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