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Ilmari Karonen wrote:
Does any record remain from which it would be even theoretically possible to extract the actual uploaders of the images from before mid-2002 whose file history only lists "(Automated conversion)" as the uploader? How about those marked as uploaded by "Conversion script" with the summary "(recovered file, missing upload log entry)"?
These should appears on the old upload log pages...
Unfortunately all I can see at the moment is these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Upload_log
which only lists back to October 2002.
Phase 2 upload logs would have gone into a page 'Log:Uploads' at the time, and I haven't been able to track down quite what happened to that. I've got some old DB dumps from phase 3 days at home, but I don't think I have anything from phase 2 (that was I think still hosted on a Bomis server which I never had access to) so I don't know if I can recover all that.
Additional complications may come from some images having been auto-copied over from Meta, or being half-uploaded and never fully recorded correctly.
- -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org