[Mediawiki-l] Delete User?

[KAndreou at rccl.com]

It doesn't appear to be part of the standard installation.
I would guess simple implementation would be to create a trigger on the 
User table that will fire on update and insert the before value into a 
history table.


mediawiki-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org wrote on 09-07-2007 16:47:05:

> 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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