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The logging table needs a log_user_text field so that events from anonymous users can be logged
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Description

Author: avarab

Description:
The logging table needs a log_user_text field so that events from unloggedin
users can be logge.


Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement

Details

Reference
bz3732

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 8:51 PM
bzimport set Reference to bz3732.

rotemliss wrote:

*** Bug 6209 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

rotemliss wrote:

It seems that this field should be filled when running update.php, and it should
be changed when the Renameuser extension changes someone's user name.

*** Bug 14735 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Removed 'schema-change' keyword. No patch attached that requires a schema change.

(In reply to comment #4)

Removed 'schema-change' keyword. No patch attached that requires a schema
change.

Adding back. Although there is no patch, the bug explicitly asks for a schema change. See also the description of the schema-change keyword.

(In reply to comment #5)

(In reply to comment #4)

Removed 'schema-change' keyword. No patch attached that requires a schema
change.

Adding back. Although there is no patch, the bug explicitly asks for a schema
change. See also the description of the schema-change keyword.

Makes for a useless search on this keyword, then. Unless it is combined with "patch" and "need-review" keywords. At the moment 21 issues have keyword "schema-change".

(In reply to comment #6)

(In reply to comment #5)

(In reply to comment #4)

Removed 'schema-change' keyword. No patch attached that requires a schema
change.

Adding back. Although there is no patch, the bug explicitly asks for a schema
change. See also the description of the schema-change keyword.

Makes for a useless search on this keyword, then. Unless it is combined with
"patch" and "need-review" keywords. At the moment 21 issues have keyword
"schema-change".

Yeah, I guess that's true.

Restoring schema-change keyword.

php importTextFile.php's user=Maintenance_script will show up in
RecentChanges, but like Bug #17343, when one checks (the security
cameras at) Special:Log, it's like (the bandits took out the film) "I
didn't see anything, did you?". Also users are shown plenty of
worthless links in RecentChanges to "Maintenance script (Talk |block)
(Importing text file)".

I wonder what putting
+---------+--------------+

user_iduser_name

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

0Default User

+---------+--------------+
into the user table would do, at least for Bug #17343.

Bug 17343 was supposed to be "fixed automatically" when this one was...