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Extension to allow reattributing edits
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Author: avarab

Description:
TODO: Make a special page to attribute anonymous edits to a username, the code
should be based on Special:Renameuser as the operation is similar.

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement

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bz2858

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 8:42 PM
• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-extension-requests.
• bzimport set Reference to bz2858.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
• bzimport created this task.Jul 14 2005, 6:00 PM
• bzimport added a comment.May 3 2006, 4:48 AM

wiki.bugzilla wrote:

*** Bug 3539 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

• bzimport added a comment.Jul 10 2007, 11:28 AM

robchur wrote:

*** Bug 10522 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

• brion added a comment.Jul 10 2007, 5:37 PM

I don't think this is really something we want to support.
Edits are attributed to the accounts that they are made with.

• bzimport added a comment.Jul 10 2007, 5:52 PM

avarab wrote:

(In reply to comment #3)

I don't think this is really something we want to support.
Edits are attributed to the accounts that they are made with.

I think this is a bad idea for MediaWiki and definitely a very bad idea for installation on Wikimedia projects. But this is the extension request component which I think should not be closed to silly ideas:)

Meno25 added a comment.Nov 30 2007, 4:30 AM

Isn't this what Extension:ChangeAuthor do?

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ChangeAuthor

Catrope added a comment.Nov 30 2007, 12:28 PM

(In reply to comment #5)

Isn't this what Extension:ChangeAuthor do?

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ChangeAuthor

Yes.

Meno25 merged a task: T12522: Extension to allow reattributing edits.Jan 14 2023, 7:14 PM
Meno25 added subscribers: Meno25, alaa.
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