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.
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 14:04, Andre-John Mas wrote:
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.
Unless the objective is spam(mer) removal.
Not really, the spam edits would still reside in the system - so if you removed the spammer, then the edits would be all messed up (have no attached user ID)
On May 31, 2006, at 1:21 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 14:04, Andre-John Mas wrote:
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.
Unless the objective is spam(mer) removal.
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On Wednesday 31 May 2006 15:04, Elliott F. Cable wrote:
Not really, the spam edits would still reside in the system - so if you removed the spammer, then the edits would be all messed up (have no attached user ID)
Generally speaking, wouldn't it make sense to delete associated edits as well?
I think not. Sort of the concept of wiki is that all edits are recorded... even bad ones...
On May 31, 2006, at 4:07 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
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On Wednesday 31 May 2006 15:04, Elliott F. Cable wrote:
Not really, the spam edits would still reside in the system - so if you removed the spammer, then the edits would be all messed up (have no attached user ID)
Generally speaking, wouldn't it make sense to delete associated edits as well?
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