https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18328


Robert B <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Robert B <[email protected]>  2009-04-05 05:40:44 UTC ---
Having looked further into this issue I think I have isolated the problem. As
of recent versions of MediaWiki (from around end of 2008) it is possible for
the text, comment and/or contributor of a revision to be completely deleted for
legal reasons (copyright infringement, libel, etc). This is mentioned in more
detail here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bitfields_for_rev_deleted

An example of a revision with a deleted contributor in the 2009-03-30 dump of
Simple English Wikipedia looks like this:

    <revision>
      <id>1460119</id>
      <timestamp>2009-03-30T11:34:51Z</timestamp>
      <contributor deleted="deleted" />
      <comment>Replaced content with 'Majorly is heaps shit'</comment>
      <text xml:space="preserve">Majorly is heaps shit</text>
    </revision>

When mwdumper encounters the contributor element <contributor deleted="deleted"
/> it chokes on it.

So it looks like the code needs to be fixed to be able to handle deleted
contributors. Question is, what should be put in place of the contributor name?


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