On 6 December 2010 19:38, Anne Wilson <annew(a)kde.org> wrote:
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.
If they've never edited (including deleted edits), then it should be
safe to delete them from the database, but you would have to do it
manually as far as I know. You may need to delete log entries
concerning those users as well (at the very least, they will each have
a log entry from when their account was created), since otherwise they
would refer to non-existent users and I don't know what problems that
could cause.
While you are right that there is no advantage to non-contributing
accounts, there isn't really any disadvantage either. You are better
off just ignoring them.