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borepstein at gmail

Jan 25, 2012, 5:18 PM

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cleaning out a mass of unwanted users

Hello everyone,

I was careless enough to run a MediaWiki installation allowing people to
sign up without a moderator's approval. Hence a few hundred of them did
sign up and started to use the site to swap images.

How can I delete their accounts in the most expeditious way?

Thanks.

Boris.
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jeremy at tuxmachine

Jan 25, 2012, 8:38 PM

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Re: cleaning out a mass of unwanted users [In reply to]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 20:18, Boris Epstein <borepstein [at] gmail> wrote:
> I was careless enough to run a MediaWiki installation allowing people to
> sign up without a moderator's approval. Hence a few hundred of them did
> sign up and started to use the site to swap images.
>
> How can I delete their accounts in the most expeditious way?

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Nuke

idk if it does anything about users existence en masse but it can deal
with what they created.

-Jeremy

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p858snake at gmail

Jan 25, 2012, 8:48 PM

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Re: cleaning out a mass of unwanted users [In reply to]

For the accounts, Extension:User merge and delete[1] would probably be
the best route, And just create a dummy account for you to merge them
into. And use Extension:Nuke as Jeremy suggested to delete any pages
they created.

[1]. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:User_Merge_and_Delete

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jamie at thingelstad

Jan 26, 2012, 7:32 AM

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Re: cleaning out a mass of unwanted users [In reply to]

Assuming that these accounts didn't do anything other than signup and register, you could easily use the removeUnusedAccounts.php maintenance script.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:RemoveUnusedAccounts.php

If they have made edits, then the Nuke extension is the best way to go.
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On Jan 25, 2012, at 10:48 PM, K. Peachey wrote:

> For the accounts, Extension:User merge and delete[1] would probably be
> the best route, And just create a dummy account for you to merge them
> into. And use Extension:Nuke as Jeremy suggested to delete any pages
> they created.
>
>
> [1]. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:User_Merge_and_Delete
>
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