Brion Vibber wrote:
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)"?
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.
If the actual logs can't be found, I suppose one way to make at least a good guess would be to scan the edit histories of old pages to check when each image was first inserted into an article and by whom. I'm downloading a database dump for that purpose as I write this, but it strikes me that an old dump from some point after mid-2002 would be much more convenient for this than digging through the terabyte or so of sediments that we've accumulated since. So, incidentally, would be old image / oldimage / imagelinks SQL dumps.
(But, if anyone has such dumps lying around, please *don't* mail them to me directly. My mailbox is filled way too close to quota as it is.)