Such users can still exist, they can't just be a valid name. Adding it to $wgReservedUsernames might be enough to allow it as an anon (not sure). At the very least, having something like '<Anonymous>' would be fine, since < isn't allowed in real usernames.
-- Brian
On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 7:39 PM Valerio Pelliccioni vmp@silkwood.it wrote:
Thanks Brian. I run the suggested scripts but didn't solve the problem. I need a user "Anonymous".
Usernames that are valid usernames are no longer allowed to have id 0
...this means that UserMerge Extension is no longer available for user deletion; isn't it?
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Valerio Pelliccioni W: https://tunearch.org/wiki/User:Valerio_Pelliccioni
On 07/01/2020, 20:15, "MediaWiki-l on behalf of Brian Wolff" < mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org on behalf of bawolff@gmail.com> wrote:
Run cleanupUsersWithNoId.php followed by migrateActors.php --force Usernames that are valid usernames are no longer allowed to have id 0. -- Brian On Tuesday, January 7, 2020, Valerio Pelliccioni <vmp@silkwood.it>wrote:
> Hi, everybody, > > I seem to have lost the user "Anonymous" which is the one with theuser_id > = 0. > > I say this because trying to delete a user with the extension "UserMerge" > I got this error: > > "Cannot create an actor for a usable name that is not an existing user". > > > > To be clear, the UserMerge Extension instructs to > merge (refer contributions, texts, watchlists, edit count of) a first > account A to a second account B > delete the first account A after the merge > …. > if you omit the "New User" field (account B) then the extension > auto-populates the New User as "Anonymous", and ask you to confirm a merge > to Anonymous > > > So I went to check the "user" and "actor" tables where, actually, the > Anonymous user doesn't exist. > > Is it serious? > > Everything else seems to be working fine to me... > > > > Valerio Pelliccioni > > W: https://tunearch.org/wiki/User:Valerio_Pelliccioni > > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
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