On lun, 2002-06-24 at 20:39, Pierre Abbat wrote:

Why does the conversion script have a "Block this IP" link after it? What is the IP of the conversion script?

Hmm, that's a bug. :)

The database stores two pieces of information on the user who made an edit: user_name is the login name (or for an anonymous user, the IP address) and user_id is the internal index number of the user account (or for an anonymous user, 0).

The conversion script marks the converted page with the user_name "Conversion script" and user_id 0. It looks like the bit that checks whether to put up a "block this IP" link just checks for user_id=0.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)