Motivation
Global user ids are a pretty recent thing on mediawiki. Therefore, user names have often been used as a unique identifier. However, now that global user ids exist, they should be used!
Task
When file revisions are copied to Commons, the users mentioned in these file revisions should be defined not only by name, but also by the global user ID.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | None | T140462 Correctly move files from Wikipedia to Commons (2013) | |||
| Resolved | thiemowmde | T146666 Build a commons extension that moves files to Commons | |||
| Duplicate | None | T156798 Implement the file-copy functionality | |||
| Invalid | Addshore | T163499 Import user IDs for file revisions |
I need to double check this before closing but I am 99% sure that we dont need to do any action here.
The ids should be correctly imported (as the local user) but this of course did not happen on the test site as there are no local users!
Yup, so the wikirevisions are created by doing
$revision->setUsername( $textRevision->getField( 'user' ) );
and the import code in WikiRevision then does
$user = $this->getUserObj() ?: User::newFromName( $this->getUser() );
Which will get the user object for the local wiki and import it under than user.