Remember that MediaWiki is generally designed for use in Wikimedia projects;
Wikimedia doesn't generally delete user accounts, so it's not a feature they
implemented, I suppose.
I'm not technically learned enough to know what reference constraints are,
so, I can't comment on that. :/
On 9/6/06, David Zhang <david_q_zhang(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Dave, thanks for your input. I understand your point.
>Mediawiki does not really permit one to
eliminate a
user account entirely...
>Deleting a user from the database is NOT
advised.
If so, why the MW development team did NOT create
any reference constraint to the user table? And if so,
then the lack of database reference constraints mean a
glaring implementation oversight.
Anybody knows the real intention of MW team?
Thanks, David
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As I understand it, Mediawiki does not really permit
one to eliminate a
user
account entirely. Rather, it depends on blocking the
user from further
use
of the system. This preserves the account and
associated data, but
locks it
and keeps it from being accessed again.
Deleting a user from the database is NOT advised.
Others on this list
are
surely better informed than I, but I think that's the
short of it.
Dave Pace
On 9/5/06, David Zhang <david_q_zhang(a)yahoo.com>
wrote:
Hello,
Does MW have out-of-box feature for WikiSysop to
remove a user account?
If not, what happen if I manually remove a user
account? Many dead links?
non-functioning system?
I am not sure whether other people have noticed that
there are NO reference constraints
to the user table from other MW tables. User
accounts
are stored in the user table.
Anybody knows why MW development team did NOT create
references to user
table? Obviously, many other tables have user
information such as user_id, but
why no database reference constraints to enforce
data
integrity?
Any info is really appreciated.
Thanks, David
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