With T223406/T167246: Refactor "user" & "user_text" fields into "actor" reference table the [[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Revision_table#rev_user | revisions.rev_user ]] and revisions.rev_user_text will be replaced by the [[ https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Actor_table | actor table ]].
Some of our tools e.g. WLM-stats make use of the old columns and need to be updated.