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UserInfoCard: Display joined text for registrations before 2005
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Summary

If the local and global registration date is older than the creation of the log in 2005, we need to display this clearly in a way that users understand.

Specification

Text to display: Joined: before 2005

Acceptance criteria

  • Registrations made pre-2005 will display "Joined: before 2005"

Reported on wiki

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Product_Safety_and_Integrity/Anti-abuse_signals/User_Info#Wrong_join_date

On English Wikipedia my "join date" is correctly listed, 24 January 2003 (23 years ago). On my home wiki, nl.wikipedia.org it lists the date of 28 May 2008 (17 years ago), while my first edit was on 14 December 2002 (23 years ago). The cause is probably the Global contributions. The date of 28 May 2008 is shown in that overview. I have known for many years this is wrong, but because this information will be so easily shown due to the introduction of User Info, it should be correct imho. The same I saw in the join dates of other "oldies".

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KColeman-WMF renamed this task from UserInfoCard: {use imperative mood to describe desired outcome} to UserInfoCard: Display joined text for registrations before 2005.Jun 18 2025, 2:17 PM
kostajh added a subscriber: Mimurawil.
Niharika raised the priority of this task from Low to Medium.Sep 10 2025, 10:32 AM
Niharika updated the task description. (Show Details)

Change #1189449 had a related patch set uploaded (by STran; author: STran):

[mediawiki/extensions/CheckUser@master] UserInfoCard: Add support for pre-`user_registration` accounts in "Joined" info

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1189449

Change #1189449 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/extensions/CheckUser@master] UserInfoCard: Add support for pre-`user_registration` accounts in "Joined" info

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1189449