brianna.laugher wrote:

To clarify, the page was transwikied from meta to mediawiki.
http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=User%3AHappy-melon%2FTemplates

I think the mistake is actually that the imported edits are attributed to your mediawiki username at all. See https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18163 "Importing a page shouldn't attribute the edits to local usernames".

happy.melon.wiki wrote:

In general I agree with the sentiments of that bug and bug 13798 which it is duped to; *however* when both wikis are part of the SUL network that is not so sensible, as "happy-melon@enwiki" is the *same user* as "happy-melon" on mediawikiwiki.

I guess the default implementation should be to attribute the edits to the user account on the old site, and add a hook that CentralAuth uses to instead attribute the edits to the local account if it exists.

(In reply to comment #0)

Regardless, surely the situation whereby the edits
*look* like they're from me in histories, contribs, diffs, etc, but aren't
recorded as being mine, isn't right?

Special:Contributions was "fixed" because it looks now (also?) for user_id, which for imported edits is 0, so the situation you describe is no longer there.
Anyway, unless the user_id is matched to the local user nothing can or should be done: it would be wrong to consider in any way edits we don't know the author of.

If that was solved, the only left fragment of this bug would be the need to update some editcounts for the newly matching user_id's, but I wouldn't call that a bug. Closing.