Forum:Can IP edits be assigned to a user?

Some of my wiki's editors have problems staying logged in and it often takes them a while until they realize they are editing as IPs. One user asked me if there is a way the attribution can be changed to his user name? --Spankart 17:09, 13 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Not really. One could try to export the edit, modify the XML file, and reimport it (and perhaps delete the IP revision), but that might be messy and might not necessarily work all the time. G .He (Talk!) 17:13, 13 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Someone is working on a special-page UI for attribute.php (this would be possibly a way to rename users on Wikia, by simply reattributing their edits and log entries manually). It will be a while before it can be tested thorougly (and shared user rename might come about first and make it mostly obsolete). --Splarka (talk) 06:09, 14 May 2007 (UTC)


 * It's a little on a different topic, but one of my ideas on tracking contributions on users who login under different names or IP's, or even on bots which use 2 accounts (Like how my bots use a Bot and Sysop account) was a upgrade to Special:Contributions which allowed you to specify multiple targets. I was considering which would be the best method of it at times, / is used to split the page from the parameter and might be a good split character cause I believe that makes it an illegal name character, | is also used to split things at times, and there's also the fact that target[] can be used to create an array of target names. Although it is true that ',' is a common splitting character, but I don't know if it is legal in names... if it is that could have issues. ~Dantman(talk) tricks May 14, 2007 @ 13:09 (UTC)