[Mediawiki-l] Deleting unused accounts

[Christof Damian]

On Wed, 04 Jan 2006, Rob Church wrote:
> Just thought I'd announce this here, in case it's of use:
> 
> About an hour ago, I checked in a PHP script which checks the
> database for users who haven't made edits, and deletes them. It runs
> from the command line (phpShell seems fine with it, too) and works
> relatively quickly.

Thats cool. I have lots of unused acounts registered on my mediawiki
installations. I think most of them are from spambots which never
posted or got blocked by SpamBlacklist.

This probably makes sense on wikipedia too, as I guess there are a lot
of spambot sleepers, which are now useful with the x%/can't edit
blocks.

christof

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