<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Well in every instance I looked up a name that was usurped, it never changed. Hence I stick with the user_id and it avoids complication.<div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 9, 2014, at 20:01, John <<a href="mailto:phoenixoverride@gmail.com" class="">phoenixoverride@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">Rev user text should be updating, however there may be a lag due to throb queue <span class=""></span><br class=""><br class="">On Sunday, November 9, 2014, Maximilian Doerr <<a href="mailto:maximilian.doerr@gmail.com" class="">maximilian.doerr@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="">When you look up a usurped name, the count is completely wrong. Looking up by id avoids that issue because when changing name, user id stays the same. rev_user_text does not update when a username changes.<div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 9, 2014, at 19:44, Platonides <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','platonides@gmail.com');" target="_blank" class="">platonides@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class="">On 09/11/14 20:02, Maximilian Doerr wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">It was indexed by both in the past. And it should be that way too.<br class="">Looking up by username is an unreliable way of counting edits.<br class=""><br class="">Cyberpower678<br class="">English Wikipedia Account Creation Team<br class="">Mailing List Moderator<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">It depends on what you consider "unreliable". I have seen complaints due to Special:Contributions ignoring imported edits.<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Labs-l mailing list<br class=""><a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','Labs-l@lists.wikimedia.org');" target="_blank" class="">Labs-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a><br class=""><a href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l" target="_blank" class="">https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l</a><br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></blockquote>
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