A better solution would be to work out how to disable a user. That way at least you have a historic track of the user, even if they no longer have the ability to log in.
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Elliott F. Cable Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 16:36 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Deleting a user account
It leaves edits with no editing user. Among other things; why do you need to remove it, 'swoop'?
On May 31, 2006, at 8:06 AM, Sy Ali wrote:
On 5/31/06, Swoop docuswear@yahoo.com wrote:
Can someone point me to the documentation which shows how to delete user accounts?
I am running mediawiki 1.5.7, and am logged in with sysop and bureaucrat permissions.
There is some sort of deleteoldusers.php script in the maintenance directory, but aside from that there's no official way.
I might suggest editing the users table in the database and deleting that row, but I've been told in the past that this can be a bad idea.