Mediawiki delete user full#

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This probably means that the extension is stable and works well enough to be used by such high-traffic websites. This extension is being used on one or more Wikimedia projects. The page moving will resume where it left off. There are two steps that need to be done: First block the user using the link in Special Pages. References if, wfTimestamp (), and wfTimestampOrNull (). This solutions is available out of the box for MediaWiki 1.16+ The user and all the contributed content will remain but they will not be able to log in any more. Definition at line 1191 of file User.php. Previously you were supposed to pass an array of strings here, but we also need expiry info nowadays, so an array of strings is ignored. Closing an account is always available through a dedicated special. Then rename User A to User B again, this time leaving the box 'Move user and talk pages (and their subpages) to new name' checked. usergroups Array of arrays or stdClass result rows out of the usergroups table. Due to the way MediaWiki works, deleting or otherwise removing accounts is not possible. What do I do now? You can't fix the situation by immediately trying again to rename User A to User B, because it will simply say 'The user 'User A' does not exist.' To fix the situation, rename User B back to User A, after unchecking the box 'Move user and talk pages (and their subpages) to new name'. There were so many userpages that it timed out partway through moving them from User:A/subpage. This extension introduces and invokes the RenameUserComplete hook to notify other extensions of user renames. Use the command line maintenance script to do the rename, or use a different account to do the rename. Due to a bug, you can't rename the same account from where you're performing the rename ( task T267477).Users don't care about referential integrity of the database or anything of the sort. This option is available on nearly every major site and its absence on MediaWiki wikis is conspicuous and unacceptable. You will not be able to rename users to invalid usernames (which doesn't equal usernames which match a blacklist but includes for instance reserved usernames ). MediaWiki should have a user preference that allows users the ability to deactivate and/or delete their account.You should probably use CentralAuth's built-in Special:GlobalRenameUser and Special:GlobalRenameRequest/Special:GlobalRenameQueue. That would stop excessive user creation into the hundreds from an IP. In case CentralAuth is installed, you'll get a warning if you try to rename a local user from an account attached to a global account or to a username reserved by a global account a check box to rename anyway will be provided (this requires caution).

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