On Monday 06 December 2010 15:19:18 Łukasz Garczewski wrote:
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Graham tolliver@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