Broken logs after special page name change
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	MarcoAurelio
	Mar 1 2012, 10:28 PM

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Hi. Once upon a time the page to create and change wikisets was called Special:EditWikiSets. Changes were logged at the global rights log as this (taking Special:EditWikiSets/2 as example [the global bot wikis]):

https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=gblrights&user=&page=Special%3AEditWikiSets%2F2&year=&month=-1&tagfilter=

Now, the page is called Special:WikiSets, so changes are logged as Special:WikiSets/<number of wikiset>:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=gblrights&user=&page=Special%3AWikiSets%2F2&year=&month=-1&tagfilter=

So, because of the rename of the special page the logs ore split in two. This causes confusion and lack of transparency.

I hope the explanation is clear. Notwithstanding I've CCd another steward who can explain better.

Thank you.

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Reference: bz34877

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 22 2014, 12:17 AM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-extensions-CentralAuth.

• bzimport set Reference to bz34877.

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MarcoAurelio created this task.Mar 1 2012, 10:28 PM

Fixed "blocks" section. Bug number was incorrect.

This should be done by establishing a special page alias.

It has an alias. But logs use the stored canonical version, which has changed.

MariaDB [metawiki_p]> select count(*) from logging where log_type="gblrights" and log_namespace=-1 and log_title like "EditWikiSets/%";
+----------+

count(*)

+----------+

304

+----------+
1 row in set (0.05 sec)

I think all we need to do is fix the log_title field. Will this work?

UPDATE logging SET log_title = REPLACE(log_title, 'EditWikiSets', 'WikiSets') WHERE log_type="gblrights" AND log_namespace=-1 AND log_title like "EditWikiSets/%";

• werdna unsubscribed.Dec 10 2014, 6:16 PM

Krenair removed a parent task: T36875: Special:WikiSets/<numer of wikiset> should load global rights log snippet.Aug 9 2015, 1:54 AM

Ran on metawiki:

mysql> /* T36877 */ UPDATE logging SET log_title = REPLACE(log_title, 'EditWikiSets', 'WikiSets') WHERE log_type="gblrights" AND log_namespace=-1 AND log_title like "EditWikiSets/%";
Query OK, 304 rows affected (0.84 sec)
Rows matched: 304  Changed: 304  Warnings: 0

I don't think we need to provide anything generic in the extension, so closing this.

MarcoAurelio moved this task from Backlog to Done on the MediaWiki-extensions-CentralAuth board.Aug 11 2015, 11:10 AM

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