While doing some analysis, I found a strange inconsistency.

The ServerSideAccountCreation event logs show a user with the ID 26048397 and the name Dhava2nd being created on the English Wikipedia at 2015-08-20 01:38:57. (Those logs do not record autocreations).

However, that user ID doesn't exist in `enwiki.users`. The user Dhava2nd does exist, but with the user ID 26048409 (twelve numbers later) and a registration date of 2015-08-20 01:41:07 (two minutes later). Special:Log says that that the enwiki account was autocreated, but the centralauth database says the enwiki account was the initial creation, and that occurred at 2015-08-20 01:38:59.

In my cohort, this was the first user out of about 80,000 to have a problem like this.

Does anyone know what's going on? Is this issue documented anywhere?
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Neil P. Quinn, product analyst
Wikimedia Foundation