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Importers, Administrators 278,874 edits no, it wasn't quite that simple ... I've been planning to write a user page on this user for some time now, but I just haven't gotten around to digging through old archives to check the info ... this is a reasonable start though |
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Although the user '''0''' is a ''real'' editor (not a bot), the edits attributed to that username from 2002 were made by several Wikipedia users. This is due to a bug in a very early version of [[MediaWiki]], where if a user made an edit some time between 20 July and 24 July 2002, all the previous edits to that page by registered users (including those by [[User:Conversion script|Conversion script]]) would be re-attributed to User:0, and all the edits by anonymous users would have their IP addresses truncated (for example see the contributions of "[[Special:Contributions/11.105|User:11.105]]. In the case of registered users who have had their edits attributed to this username, the editors' user ID's have been preserved, so it is theoretically possible to re-assign many of the edits back to the correct usernames. As a result, unlike most users, User:0 has several ID numbers in the Wikipedia database. |
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The user '''0''' is a ''real'' editor (not a bot), but his or her earliest contributions from 2002 are actually by the bot [[User:Conversion script|Conversion script]]. This is due to a bug in a very early version of [[MediaWiki]]. |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
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*[[User:Conversion script]] |
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*[[Special:Contributions/0]] |
*[[Special:Contributions/0]] |
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Revision as of 14:13, 11 April 2011
Although the user 0 is a real editor (not a bot), the edits attributed to that username from 2002 were made by several Wikipedia users. This is due to a bug in a very early version of MediaWiki, where if a user made an edit some time between 20 July and 24 July 2002, all the previous edits to that page by registered users (including those by Conversion script) would be re-attributed to User:0, and all the edits by anonymous users would have their IP addresses truncated (for example see the contributions of "User:11.105. In the case of registered users who have had their edits attributed to this username, the editors' user ID's have been preserved, so it is theoretically possible to re-assign many of the edits back to the correct usernames. As a result, unlike most users, User:0 has several ID numbers in the Wikipedia database.