[Mediawiki-l] Deleting unused accounts

[Rob Church]

Er, no...this is a maintenance script to delete unused accounts from
the database. ;-)


Rob Church

On 07/01/06, Kyle Lutze <kyle at randomvoids.com> wrote:
> is the plan to have this lock usernames too? I think it would be cool to
> make a page that says: user account unavailible due to such and such
> reason, like all of the accounts that try to impersonate jimbo that
> curps keeps blocking, etc. possibly blocking other names that have a 99%
> chance of being used as a sockpuppet account in the future too? such as
> by sollog.
>
> Just a though.
> Kyle
>
> Rob Church wrote:
> > Oooh, feedback...
> >
> > * I'm working on a simple DeleteUser special page. It's got pushed to
> > the back burner due to other concerns right now, but I'll check it in
> > at some point.
> >
> > * I was toying with the idea of deleting users who hadn't edited
> > within a certain time period as it is...
> >
> > Thanks for the feedback. I'll keep it all in mind for the next incarnation. ;-)
> >
> >
> > Rob Church
> >
> > On 07/01/06, Sy Ali <sy1234 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>On 1/4/06, Rob Church <robchur at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>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.
> >>
> >>Other feature ideas:
> >>
> >>* Delete a specific user
> >>* Delete a regex of users -- build the list and display it, and then
> >>ask for confirmation on that list (probably an overkill feature)
> >>* Perform deletions based on their last visit -- i.e. delete a user
> >>which hasn't visited in x amount of time.
> >>* Email a user that is to be deleted.  "Hi there, you haven't visited
> >>example.com so your account has been automatically deleted."
> >>
> >>There is no real inline functionality to pull up an overview list of
> >>users and display information about their last login, last edit or the
> >>like.. a separate script to do that would be cool.  Then the deletion
> >>script could use the user display script to get its information, and
> >>act accordingly.
> >>
> >>All of that available through mediawiki itself would be cool.  Is it
> >>possible to have a special page which acts as a simple gateway to any
> >>script in the maintenance directory?
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