Hi,
I'm going to merge my Wikisysop account (say "Larry") with a wiki user's account (say "Jimmy"). As a result, I want to keep the name of the 2nd account ("Jimmy").
Is that a bad idea?
Some more info : "Jimmy" account is a "ghost account". I created it but never used it (contributions = 0).
I could do that with the User_Merge_and_Delete extension ( http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:User_Merge_and_Delete). Maybe there is a better way ?
I would like to be sure that this won't break my wiki. Thank you for any advice.
Laurent
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Wikimini wrote:
I'm going to merge my Wikisysop account (say "Larry") with a wiki user's account (say "Jimmy"). As a result, I want to keep the name of the 2nd account ("Jimmy").
Is that a bad idea?
There's nothing special about the initial sysop account other than what user groups it's in, so as long as those are preserved it should work fine...
Some more info : "Jimmy" account is a "ghost account". I created it but never used it (contributions = 0).
I could do that with the User_Merge_and_Delete extension ( http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:User_Merge_and_Delete). Maybe there is a better way ?
It looks like that extension by default won't let you merge sysops; you could tweak around its settings, but it sounds like the simplest thing in your case would actually be to delete your unused target account and rename the sysop account.
You could also add the sysop, bureaucrat etc groups to the other account if you don't need to transfer edit attributions.
-- brion
Thank you very much for your answer.
Sorry to ask this, but how can I "delete the other [ghost] account" ? Should I use the User_Merge_and_Delete extension or is there a better way ?
Laurent
2010/10/3 Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com:
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Wikimini wrote:
I'm going to merge my Wikisysop account (say "Larry") with a wiki user's account (say "Jimmy"). As a result, I want to keep the name of the 2nd account ("Jimmy").
Is that a bad idea?
There's nothing special about the initial sysop account other than what user groups it's in, so as long as those are preserved it should work fine...
Some more info : "Jimmy" account is a "ghost account". I created it but never used it (contributions = 0).
I could do that with the User_Merge_and_Delete extension ( http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:User_Merge_and_Delete). Maybe there is a better way ?
It looks like that extension by default won't let you merge sysops; you could tweak around its settings, but it sounds like the simplest thing in your case would actually be to delete your unused target account and rename the sysop account.
You could also add the sysop, bureaucrat etc groups to the other account if you don't need to transfer edit attributions.
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?open the database search for "Jimmy" (table user) delete
----- Original Message ----- From: "Wikimini" webmaster@wikimini.org To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list" mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 12:40 AM Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Renaming Wikisysop --> Bad idea?
Sorry to ask this, but how can I "delete the other [ghost] account" ? Should I use the User_Merge_and_Delete extension or is there a better way ?
Won't that corrupt the database?
2010/10/4 Support Simpsonspedia support@simpsonspedia.net:
?open the database search for "Jimmy" (table user) delete
----- Original Message ----- From: "Wikimini" webmaster@wikimini.org To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list" mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 12:40 AM Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Renaming Wikisysop --> Bad idea?
Sorry to ask this, but how can I "delete the other [ghost] account" ? Should I use the User_Merge_and_Delete extension or is there a better way ?
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Only if there are contribs belonging to that user.
?why? you should delete the entry/line NOT the table or the database
if you don't know how a database works (i.e. the basics) - don't try to change anything on the database
----- Original Message ----- From: "Wikimini" webmaster@wikimini.org To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list" mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 12:59 AM Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Renaming Wikisysop --> Bad idea?
Won't that corrupt the database?
2010/10/4 Support Simpsonspedia support@simpsonspedia.net:
?open the database search for "Jimmy" (table user) delete
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Support Simpsonspedia support@simpsonspedia.net wrote:
?why? you should delete the entry/line NOT the table or the database
if you don't know how a database works (i.e. the basics) - don't try to change anything on the database
Because mediawiki uses a very relational database, why is why you can corrupt something by just deleting a row in a single db (But yes, if there is nothing else attached to the user account, such as edit contribs, it will be fine). -Peachey
On 3 October 2010 23:55, Support Simpsonspedia support@simpsonspedia.net wrote:
?open the database search for "Jimmy" (table user) delete
Safer method: Rename "Jimmy" to "Jimmy2" and then rename "Larry" to "Jimmy". While deleting the row from the database ought to be safe in this case, it's an unnecessary risk.
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