<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="">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><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 9, 2014, at 19:44, Platonides <<a href="mailto:platonides@gmail.com" class="">platonides@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><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="mailto:Labs-l@lists.wikimedia.org" class="">Labs-l@lists.wikimedia.org</a><br class="">https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>