On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Benjamin Lees <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote: > > > If you go back far enough you may find user accounts created under > versions > > of MediaWiki that didn't record the account creation date; this is > probably > > what you're seeing. > > There has to be more to it than that. The creation date for User:Brion > VIBBER, for instance, is displayed, even though the date for accounts > created much later isn't. > Some, but not all, accounts had creation dates retroactively filled in. > Hmmmm, not sure if there's a reliable one. You can check if user_touched > > has been updated BUT this gets updated for things like people leaving > > messages on their talk page. > > > It gets reset for a user if other people edit that user's talk page? That > kind of seems like a bug. :-) > No, it's quite deliberate -- that's how their cached pages get cleared to make room for the "You've got messages" indicator. -- brion _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
