https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66450

--- Comment #27 from Jackmcbarn <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to billinghurst from comment #26)
> (In reply to Jackmcbarn from comment #22)
> > (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.
> 
> Not sure that I fully follow, and I don't know the backend code, however, ...
> 
> Autocreates are logged, so I am not certain why someone attempting to login
> to zzWX would not show on the TBL. Such autocreate account creations
> definitely show through RC and pop in IRC feeds.

I meant that autocreate attempts that fail due to the titleblacklist won't be
logged.

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