Does is screw up your recent changes or article histories if the user isn't in the user table?
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Ralf Baechle Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 12:54 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Delete User
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 09:52:28AM -0700, Wolfe, Jeff wrote:
I've got a couple user accounts that I want to eliminate, or at least disable and hide from display in lists. Any suggestions? I could just remove the row from user, but that seems risky. What do you normally do if someone creates a user and uses profanity or the like for
the name?
I have been unable to find anything on this on meta.
I'm removing malicious users quite from the users table regularly. Something else I'd eventually like to do is cleanup the user table from users that have never even done even a single edit - a rough estimate is that 80 - 90% of users fall into this class.
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On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 12:12:48PM -0700, Wolfe, Jeff wrote:
Does is screw up your recent changes or article histories if the user isn't in the user table?
The screwup is cosmetic, basically. If the same user name is recreated again things might be a little confusing - I suspect statistics also.
Doesn't bother me very much though :-) If I actually remove a user account it's one that's 100% been used for malicious purposes, so I want to get rid of any traces of the existence, including in the recentchanges table which is easy by something like ``delete from recentchanges where rc_user_text = "YoGa";''
Ralf
Hello,
I'm new to Wikipedia. My biggest frustration is that in order to find help, you have to look in many different areas. Editing help is best found on Wikipedia.org and Server Admin is best found on wikimedia.org.
Anyways, I was wondering if anyone knows how to use system messages. For instance, there is a system message "googlesearch". If I simply put {{googlesearch}} it obviously doesn't get interpretted properly.
This also begs another question. If I want to add my own JavaScript and/or Flash properties, how would I do this. In wikimedia I cannot find the method that ignores wikimedia so that I can properly define JavaScript/Flash blocks of code?
Thank you, Graeme.
I'm new to MediaWiki as well but I'd handle this by doing an extension http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mediawiki_Extensions
Perhaps write a generic one that'd allow anyone to do this.
But I'll be interested to see others responses.
-ben
On 5/6/05, Graeme Canivet gjcanive@uwaterloo.ca wrote:
Hello,
I'm new to Wikipedia. My biggest frustration is that in order to find help, you have to look in many different areas. Editing help is best found on Wikipedia.org http://Wikipedia.org and Server Admin is best found on wikimedia.org http://wikimedia.org.
Anyways, I was wondering if anyone knows how to use system messages. For instance, there is a system message "googlesearch". If I simply put {{googlesearch}} it obviously doesn't get interpretted properly.
This also begs another question. If I want to add my own JavaScript and/or Flash properties, how would I do this. In wikimedia I cannot find the method that ignores wikimedia so that I can properly define JavaScript/Flash blocks of code?
Thank you, Graeme.
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Again, I wanted to know if this is the right resource to be asking these types of questions. This list isn't as busy as I would have expected.
Also, is there support for FORMS. I think I'm gonna have to make some extensions!? Ah Graeme.
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Graeme Canivet Sent: May 6, 2005 12:40 PM To: 'MediaWiki announcements and site admin list' Subject: [Mediawiki-l] General Help
Hello,
I'm new to Wikipedia. My biggest frustration is that in order to find help, you have to look in many different areas. Editing help is best found on Wikipedia.org and Server Admin is best found on wikimedia.org.
Anyways, I was wondering if anyone knows how to use system messages. For instance, there is a system message "googlesearch". If I simply put {{googlesearch}} it obviously doesn't get interpretted properly.
This also begs another question. If I want to add my own JavaScript and/or Flash properties, how would I do this. In wikimedia I cannot find the method that ignores wikimedia so that I can properly define JavaScript/Flash blocks of code?
Thank you, Graeme.
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