https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27992

--- Comment #6 from Ariel T. Glenn <[email protected]> 2011-11-16 10:23:33 
UTC ---
RĂ¼diger:

Would you mind making your script available as an attachment here, so that
users of the dumps can make these corrections until we have a patch approved
and deployed? 

To Daniel: 

We have no way to be sure that a username really exists on a project, i.e.
really existed at the time of an edit.  We can't actually look up all names in
the user table to see if they are valid, because if a user is renamed and all
goes well, the old name disappears from the table.  Bearing that in mind, I
think the only approach we can reasonably take is that if the rev_user is 0,
and rev_user_text looks *exactly* like an IP address, then we log it as an IP
address, otherwise not.

Examples that would be recorded as usernames, all real usernames taken from
enwp:

193.251.9.132 is back for more
152.163.xx.xx
64.175.249.214 (Hephaestos)

-- 
Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email
------- You are receiving this mail because: -------
You are on the CC list for the bug.
_______________________________________________
Wikibugs-l mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l

Reply via email to