On Monday 06 December 2010 15:19:18 Łukasz Garczewski wrote: We have large numbers of registered users who have never contributed anything at all, so I suspect that some of them could be bots. I had considered trying to identify all who have been registered for more than a year without contributing, and removing those accounts. I don't see the advantage to either the wiki or the user in a non-contributing registration. Anne -- KDE Community Working Group New to KDE Software? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:User_Merge_and_Delete should do it.

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Helmut Hullen <Hullen(a)t-online.de> wrote: There should be a checkbox that says "Delete old user". Check it and leave the new name blank, and it will prompt you to merge the user to "Anonymous" and delete it (I don't know how well it will work if the account has made edits). Honestly, you're better off taking Łukasz's and Thomas' advice. Deleting users is a really pointless endeavor.

--- On Tue, 12/7/10, Benjamin Lees <emufarmers(a)gmail.com> wrote: I disagree especially if it's spambot that's created hundreds of them

On 12/13/10 05:10, roger(a)rogerchrisman.com wrote: What's the real status of this maintenance script? The docs on the page linked above state that the script "in its current form" require a patch (from the Discussion page) if you don't want to delete recently created pages... but --help gives the option --ignore-touched=x : Ignore accounts touched within the lasts x days. So, just to be really clear (before someone runs this script), is it correct to assume the patch is no longer required, and: php removeUnusedAccounts.php --ignore-touched=x --delete will remove all unused accounts older than x days (where x is some number of days such as 90)? C.