Ok, thanks.
Valerio Pelliccioni W: https://tunearch.org/wiki/User:Valerio_Pelliccioni
On 08/01/2020, 10:39, "MediaWiki-l on behalf of Brian Wolff" <mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org on behalf of bawolff@gmail.com> wrote:
You might still have to rerun migrateActors.php after making that change, as otherwise some of the older edits attributed to Anonymous may have disappeared.
-- Brian
On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 6:56 AM Valerio Pelliccioni vmp@silkwood.it wrote:
> Thank you so much Brian. > Your first suggestion solved the problem. > It was enough to add the following line in LocalSettings.php > > // Add just one user name to the default array > $wgReservedUsernames[] = 'Anonymous'; > > to get this: > > Merge from Giada (691) to Anonymous (0) is complete. > Giada (691) has been deleted. > > > --------- > Valerio Pelliccioni > W: https://tunearch.org/wiki/User:Valerio_Pelliccioni > > > On 07/01/2020, 20:47, "MediaWiki-l on behalf of Brian Wolff" < > mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org on behalf of bawolff@gmail.com> > wrote: > > 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? > > > > V > > > > > > 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 > the > > user_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 > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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