blocking user is not updated after rename
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	Elfix
	Apr 10 2010, 7:16 AM

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Hi,

I'm not sure whether that's already been reported or wheter that's normal, but it seems like renaming an account doesn't affect [[Special:BlockList]] special page while other logs are updated though.

See this, for example: http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sp%E9cial:Liste_des_blocages&limit=500&hidetempblocks=0&hideuserblocks=1&hideaddressblocks=1&offset=20090420&limit=8&uselang=en

Two administrators from this list have been renamed in april 2009, and we still have their old usernames in there. One of them blocked "216.108.235.0/24", the other one blocked "208.184.6.0/24". Note that the blocklog has been updated, though: http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sp%E9cial:Journal&type=block&page=Utilisateur%3A208.184.6.0%2F24&uselang=en

Thank you in advance.

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Open	None	T25135 blocking user is not updated after rename
Resolved	None	T33863 Fix use of DB schema so RenameUser is trivial
Open	None	T167246 Refactor "user" & "user_text" fields into "actor" reference table
Resolved	Jdforrester-WMF	T188183 Add the "actor" table to the database layout documentation
Resolved	Ciencia_Al_Poder	T188710 Adapt grabbers to support the new actor table
Open	None	T205353 Clean up empty ar_user_text and rev_user_text fields
Resolved	Seb35	T229092 Investigate migrateActors script failing due to duplicate empty actor_name
Stalled	None	T27377 Update username in AbuseFilter interface when user is renamed using Renameuser
Open	None	T158495 UserCache should allow for usernames on other wikis
Open	None	T188180 Read from and write to `actor` table in AbuseFilter
Open	None	T86943 AbuseLog search not working on global hits
Resolved	Ladsgroup	T333332 Add af_actor/afh_actor fields to wmf wikis
Resolved	Zabe	T334295 Write to af_actor/afh_actor in production
Resolved	Ladsgroup	T336224 Run MigrateActorsAF on all wikis
Stalled	None	T337920 Stop writing to af_user(_text)/afh_user(_text)
Resolved	Zabe	T337921 Make af_actor and afh_actor accessible in Wiki Replicas
Resolved	Zabe	T355616 Start reading from af_actor/afh_actor
Open	None	T361996 Remove deprecated fields from Wiki Replicas

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Elfix created this task.Apr 10 2010, 7:16 AM

Relatedly, would need a cleanup script too, to back update users where text != current user text when user table is joined to the user table

The blocked user is updated, but the blocking user is not updated.

mhershberger wrote:

Unassigning default assignments. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/54734

We should probably have some place to define what columns RenameUser needs to update in order to rename a user properly. Since we also have to deal with extensions that use usernames too.

Isn't this essentially a duplicate of bug 27873 ? (block entries are just not yet mentioned there).

No, bug 27873 is for entries *while* renaming (when a other using is doing things like restore/delete at the time, the jobs are running), this bug says, that the change is never done.

Is this already fixed? I can find relevant code lines in the extension, though I didn't verify whether it really works.

Which relevant line did you found?

The part for the blocked user already there (ipb_address/ipb_user), but not the blocking sysop (ipb_by_text/ipb_by), see comment 2

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