"Unknown Contributor" on person page, "FamilySearch" in changelog
I noticed that a when a person uploaded from the old system in 2012 still has that information on the detail page, such as with the gender and name for 9XWL-XXF, the change is displayed as being made by "Unknown Contributor." (This can only be seen if "Detail View" is turned on.) An error message pops up if the name is clicked, which makes it at least appear to be a bug. Oddly, the Recent Changes still correctly displays the contributor as being FamilySearch.
And here is someone who has a variant of this: KCLY-WSF . In this person, the contributor is said to be "unknown4470317", which doesn't seem weird at first glance, but I checked the changelog, and unknown4470317 is also FamilySearch. This one appears to be less glitchy, at least at first glance (You can click it without getting an error message), so I wonder if this one was intentional.
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familysearch does not contribute to familysearch. The previous versions of familysearch were used to populate familysearch in 2012 and the contributer information was dropped.
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@Quint Hurst I know that, I'm just confused about why it has two different names for the same change, depending on where you view it.
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"… The previous versions of familysearch were used to populate familysearch in 2012 and the contributer information was dropped."
Yes and no. Any detail about the actual human contributor was dropped, but the value "FamilySearch" was substituted as the contributor, in line with good practice. This was, I presume, to indicate where the data came from - roughly speaking.
To display "FamilySearch" in one place and "Unknown Contributor" or "unknown4470317" in another, for the same data item, is an error, pure and simple. (Whether a coding error or a design error is another matter).
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