Bugs item #1959384, was opened at 2008-05-07 09:56 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by filnik You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=603138&aid=1959384...
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Status: Closed
Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: DarkoNeko (darkoneko) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: welcome.py seems to ignore offset
Initial Comment: Version used: 5318 (latest available, since I did an update just before re-testing the bug)
Command used : /usr/bin/python ~/pywikipedia/welcome.py -nlog -limit:300 -offset:40 -random -time:300
Problem : the script ignores offset and welcomes users since the first one (verified using http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:log/newusers )
I thought the problem was "it ignores the 40 first lines, regardless of what action it is" but it's not the case : the welcomed user (Yusukay) was 6th in user creation list, and 27th in the overall log.
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Comment By: Filnik (filnik)
Date: 2008-05-08 13:08
Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1834469 Originator: NO
Yep, I've found this (strange, to say the truth) problem in another script but I remembered just now that there's that problem also on welcome.py. By the way, nicdumz has fixed it perfectly, I wouldn't have done it better :-) Well done ;-)
Filnik
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Comment By: NicDumZ — Nicolas Dumazet (nicdumz) Date: 2008-05-07 14:48
Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1963242 Originator: NO
Actually Mediawiki Special:Log has changed lately.
It's not using anymore a number offset, but a timestamp offset instead.
I fixed this on r5320, now you have to use a yyyymmddhhmmss timestamp as an -offset argument : it will only welcome users OLDER than that time. (Actually this time is server-dependant, it's GMT time for wikimedia projects).
After thinking more about this issue, I also added a timeoffset:# parameter : it will only welcome users older than # minutes.
(These argument names are confusing, offset, timeoffset, and time, but I could not really find better names. If a developer has better names, just go ahead, and *please add a deprecated warning for the old names* )
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