Last modified: 2013-06-18 15:38:29 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.
(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?
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.
Checked this again today and it's apparently fixed.
(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
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.