On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Benjamin Lees <emufarmers(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Brion Vibber
<brion(a)pobox.com> wrote:
If you go back far enough you may find user
accounts created under
versions
of MediaWiki that didn't record the account
creation date; this is
probably
what you're seeing.
There has to be more to it than that. The creation date for User:Brion
VIBBER, for instance, is displayed, even though the date for accounts
created much later isn't.
Some, but not all, accounts had creation dates retroactively filled in.
Hmmmm, not sure if there's a reliable one. You can
check if user_touched
has been updated BUT this gets updated for things
like people leaving
messages on their talk page.
It gets reset for a user if other people edit that user's talk page? That
kind of seems like a bug. :-)
No, it's quite deliberate -- that's how their cached pages get cleared to
make room for the "You've got messages" indicator.
-- brion