When you look up a usurped name, the count is completely wrong. Looking up by id avoids that issue because when changing name, user id stays the same. rev_user_text does not update when a username changes.
Cyberpower678 English Wikipedia Account Creation Team Mailing List Moderator > On Nov 9, 2014, at 19:44, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 09/11/14 20:02, Maximilian Doerr wrote: >> It was indexed by both in the past. And it should be that way too. >> Looking up by username is an unreliable way of counting edits. >> >> Cyberpower678 >> English Wikipedia Account Creation Team >> Mailing List Moderator > > It depends on what you consider "unreliable". I have seen complaints due to > Special:Contributions ignoring imported edits. > > _______________________________________________ > Labs-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l
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