[Mediawiki-l] Delete user

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 06 December 2010 15:19:18 Łukasz Garczewski wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Graham <tolliver at dal.ca> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > What is the best method with respect to deleting a user.
> > 
> > 
> > Mediawiki 1.16.0
> > PHP 5.1.6(apache2handler)
> > MySQL 5.0.77
> 
> Don't.
> 
> MediaWiki relies on having all users present, all the time.
> 
> You can rename a user, block them infinately or reset their password
> and e-mail if you don't wish them to be able to log in at all.
> 
> But do not delete. :)
> 
> Plus, there are licensing concerns around edit attirbution, too.

We have large numbers of registered users who have never contributed anything 
at all, so I suspect that some of them could be bots.  I had considered trying 
to identify all who have been registered for more than a year without 
contributing, and removing those accounts.  I don't see the advantage to 
either the wiki or the user in a non-contributing registration.

Anne
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