Template talk:WikiAnniversary

Qualifications?

Not sure where else to put this discussion. I found a user (User:Sentack) who made 3 edits in the 2nd year badge timeframe, but does not have the badge. However, the edits were to a talk page and his own page (Special:Contributions/Sentack) and the account is not registered. While it's a few years late, if edits to talk pages (especially those that resulted in changes to the article proper) qualify for the badge, even for unregistered users, this user should get the badge. It's a small thing, but there may be other users like Sentack that fell through the cracks that should get recognition for their edits. Felderburg (talk) 16:12, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

I believe the issue is not whether the edits were worthy, but if they could be found at all. It appears that Sentack was converted to Fiery Transfer, which caused the edits by Sentack to no longer be searchable. There were several other cases of this that I'd found when I first applied this template, so I'm not surprised that there are more out there. The bigger question is if it's possible to search for all unregistered users and the edits they made. — talk / contribs 16:31, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

Ah, I see now in the history of the pages Fiery Transfer instead of Sentack. How is it that the whole Sentack namespace and associated contributions still exists, but then is listed as FT in the history pages? I suspect it's beyond my grasp of Wiki tech, I'm just curious. Regardless, Fiery Transfer does have quite a few edits from years earlier than his badges, and should be awarded them. As for finding unregistered users, I don't know how one would do that. The user list page (Special:ListUsers) doesn't have Sentack, so.... I don't know. Felderburg (talk) 16:43, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

The issues with Fiery Transfer somehow stem from when PW transferred away from Wikia. There was a discussion about it in this thread:

Sekoia (From the Titan Forums (for those people who can't access the admin forum), July 1, 2014) Looking at the revisions associated with Fiery Transfer's mediawiki user id (1238), it appears that somehow a bunch of other people got their edits assigned to that id. The revision table stores the user id as well as the plaintext user name. There are TONS of different plaintext user names. I vaguely remember encountering this before, but I have no idea what to do about it. I suspect it's from when we were at wikia. I don't see any revisions under the name PARAGON-Leandro. Under Leandro, I see 1180 revisions. I don't know what's up with that either but I'm going to tentatively blame Wikia for that, too. Not really sure how to proceed. I'll have to look to see if there's some way to clean up the DB at some point.

Until the database can be cleaned up to properly identify all of those unregistered users' edits, I think it's safe to just leave them as they are for now. Once they get fixed, I'll be glad to make sure the appropriate anniversary templates get applied to their user pages. — talk / contribs 21:07, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

Huh, weird. If you guys can't figure it out I'm sure I won't. Side note: the linked thread is not accessible to me. Felderburg (talk) 01:18, 1 June 2015 (UTC)