[Mediawiki-l] Delete User?

Gary Kirk gary.kirk at gmail.com
Mon Jul 9 20:47:05 UTC 2007


Isn't there a Special:Log/rename ? That extension is disabled on Xinki
wikis at the moment so I can't check myself.

On 09/07/07, KAndreou at rccl.com <KAndreou at rccl.com> wrote:
> Agreed.
> The best approach would be to rename the user to some kind of
> "username-removed" and block it indefinitely.
>
> This discussion around deleting/renaming got me thinking. Is a history
> kept of user renames?
>
>
>
> mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org wrote on 09-07-2007 16:13:13:
>
> > The main problem with deleting users is that it breaks all of their
> > contributions. Every contribution is made by a user - I don't know if
> > the code could handle that user not existing.
> >
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