https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18163
Summary: Importing a page shouldn't attribute the edits to local
usernames
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: Export/Import
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
When a page is exported from an old wiki and then imported into a new wiki, the
edits are attributed to the username at the new wiki. This is bad because the
username at the old and new wikis may not represent the same user (indeed it
may not exist at all at the new wiki). It's also in some sense _wrong_, an
inaccurate historical record: even if that user exits, they didn't make those
edits at that time, at the new wiki.
It should be clear that edits were made elsewhere after they are imported, e.g.
convert from User:Foo to User:[email protected] (and maybe link there too?).
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