[Mediawiki-l] Purging *unused* user accounts

[ccornell - OpenOffice.org]

We have been discussing purging unused user accounts on the 
OpenOffice.org Wiki.

I can run the removeUnusedAccounts.php maintenanace script, and it will 
happily remove all unused accounts (that have zero edits)... the patch 
suggested on the Discussion page for 
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:RemoveUnusedAccounts.php allows me 
to set the age of unused accounts.

Is there any guideline that people use for how old an unused account 
should be before it is removed?  Is it 10 days, 180 days, 365 days?

Does anyone change the query so that the script checks for unused 
account that has not been logged into in X number of days? Is this possible?

The concern I am hearing from the OOo Community is that we may purge 
accounts of Wiki users who have created an account, but not yet decided 
to make an edit.  I'm wondering how other Wiki admins manage this...

C.
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Clayton Cornell       ccornell at openoffice.org
OpenOffice.org Documentation Project co-lead
StarOffice - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Hamburg, Germany