https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27992
Summary: user names show up in <ip> tags
Product: XML Snapshots
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Normal
Component: General
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Sometimes, the <ip> tag does not contain an IP address, but a user's name.
Example from dewiki-20100903-stub-meta-history.xml:
<revision>
<id>7</id>
<timestamp>2002-07-08T01:55:46Z</timestamp>
<contributor>
<ip>Ben-Zin</ip>
</contributor>
<minor/>
<comment>*</comment>
<text id="7" />
</revision>
Supposedly this happens when rev_user is 0, because the user was unknown on the
wiki when the revision was created. This is expected behavior and frequently
happens when revisions are imported from other wikis. It's especially frequent
for very old revisions, imported from usermod.
The expected behavior would be to only show valid IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in
the <ip> tag. If the user ID is 0 but the user name is not a valid IP address,
it should exported as a regular user but without an ID:
<contributor>
<username>Ben-Zin</username>
</contributor>
This is especially important for researches who want to be able to distinguish
between anonymous contributions and contributions of logged in users. The
presence if the <ip> tag is supposed to indicate an anonymous contribution.
This bug makes that assumption false and leaves researches only with the
possibility to work around the issue by looking for themselves if the <ip> tag
actually contains an IP address or not.
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