Contributions page links "newer" though the list has under 50 items
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	• bzimport
	May 1 2013, 7:32 PM

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Author: sumanah

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Example: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Casgliad has
"(Latest | Earliest) View (newer 50 | older 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)"
but if you click on "never 50" you won't see more edits; you get "No changes were found matching these criteria."

This seems to happen on all WMF projects, e.g., it also happens on https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Sharihareswara_%28WMF%29 , and on other MediaWiki instances as well. The reporter said:

<Trijnstel> it happens on every project (I noticed it on a private wiki)

However it is not happening on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/67.174.36.224 so maybe it's just for registered users and not IP addresses.

I've begun looking for changesets that touched relevant code in the past few weeks - https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/60571/ might be it.

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to High.Nov 22 2014, 1:28 AM

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sumanah wrote:

I think this is high-priority because linking "newer" when there are no newer changes is substantially confusing.

sumanah wrote:

Anomie says that the patch I mentioned is almost certainly not related to this bug. Reedy says it's probably something in 1.22wmf3: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/wmf3 in case anyone wants to track it down.

Its caused by I720946e . The bug was always present but we didnt use to limit by less than current year by default.

Related URL: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/61897 (Gerrit Change I05fec226abb609b78a62f2a23f35d5b52a48ab1a)

Related URL: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/62599 (Gerrit Change I05fec226abb609b78a62f2a23f35d5b52a48ab1a)

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/62599 (Gerrit Change I05fec226abb609b78a62f2a23f35d5b52a48ab1a) | change APPROVED and MERGED [by jenkins-bot]

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/61897 (Gerrit Change I05fec226abb609b78a62f2a23f35d5b52a48ab1a) | change APPROVED and MERGED [by MarkAHershberger]