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Edit attribution for revisions converted from UseMod days or imported from another wiki are currently a little odd; the revision record stores an ID of 0 and the username directly. We then can end up assigning those edits to whoever registers the account name locally... which usually is correct, but sometimes not. :) It could be useful to be able to store some sort of source wiki identifier with that attribution, which might help with dealing with these cases; and might also be relevant for OpenID-type cross-wiki authentication situations. On the other hand it might be really difficult to retrofit in. Needs some pondering... -------------------------- **Version**: unspecified **Severity**: enhancement

Edit attribution for revisions converted from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UseModWiki|UseMod]] days or imported from another wiki are currently a little odd; the revision record stores an ID of 0 and the username directly. We then can end up assigning those edits to whoever registers the account name locally... which usually is correct, but sometimes not. :) It could be useful to be able to store some sort of source wiki identifier with that attribution, which might help with dealing with these cases; and might also be relevant for OpenID-type cross-wiki authentication situations. On the other hand it might be really difficult to retrofit in. Needs some pondering... -------------------------- **Version**: unspecified **Severity**: enhancement

Edit attribution for revisions converted from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UseModWiki|UseMod]] days or imported from another wiki are currently a little odd; the revision record stores an ID of 0 and the username directly. We then can end up assigning those edits to whoever registers the account name locally... which usually is correct, but sometimes not. :) It could be useful to be able to store some sort of source wiki identifier with that attribution, which might help with dealing with these cases; and might also be relevant for OpenID-type cross-wiki authentication situations. On the other hand it might be really difficult to retrofit in. Needs some pondering... -------------------------- **Version**: unspecified **Severity**: enhancement