https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66450
--- Comment #22 from Jackmcbarn <[email protected]> --- (In reply to billinghurst from comment #21) > (In reply to Jackmcbarn from comment #19) > > Note that it's impossible for this to ever result in an account and IP being > > linked, since any creation attempts recorded in this log necessarily did not > > result in an account being created. > > If you are indicating that without a reverse CU, then it would not be the > case for never, just unusual and rarely. > > The [[m:Titleblacklist]] has entries that have user names within them, so if > one of those users went to create an account at a new wiki, they would not > be able to do so, and it would log in the TBL log. > > Even with some small wikis, they copy the Mediawiki:... files from enWP and > utilise them at their wiki, and if they copy that TBL, and the user looks to > create an account at that new wiki, we are in the same situation. > > While such may possibly be remedied by oversight of the logs, I am not sure > that there is an oversight capacity of the TBL log. > > > If you mean that with the IP address we could not identify a user, it may be > anywhere between certain and impossible with checkuser, and that is due to > the nature of the tool and IP addresses. Attempts to autocreate an account aren't logged, so getting an IP that way isn't possible. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
