Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31863836-20190115223148/@comment-27345308-20190116231510

Andrewds1021 wrote: I am not sure how it came across, but that is not what I was trying to imply. My statement was just meant to be an observation that, for some reason, the earliest accounts don't have a timestamp associated with them. I am not sure which DB was used. I was getting this information via api.php. I suppose I could see if Api/v1 gives me anything different; probably not though. You [/api/v1/User/Details?ids=1 won't], it doesn't even list the registration date, and neither does the Service API. User registration dates only became a feature in later MediaWiki versions so they started appearing since upgraded their MediaWiki version in 2006. Andrewds1021 wrote: A note regarding one of my earlier comments; it seems that the usernames for which I was previously seeing ID set to 0 have now been removed all together. For example, [ Ripto22475] doesn't show at all in |Riptoze|Ripto22475&format=xml the api results. I'm not sure where were you seeing ID 0, since even [/api.php?action=query&list=users&ususers=Alia_Prior&format=json disabled accounts] have an ID. The user got Staff to remove their old account from the database altogether after they renamed for the second time, similar to what happens when [/api.php?action=query&list=users&ususers=Railfail536&format=json requesting to be forgotten.]