On 12/22/2012 16:40, janI wrote:
On 22 December 2012 22:32, TJ Frazier <[email protected]> wrote:
On 12/22/2012 11:17, janI wrote:
On 22 December 2012 17:10, RGB ES <[email protected]> wrote:
2012/12/22 janI <[email protected]>
Before I upgrade our database (and system) to 1.20.2 I would like to
clean
some of the dead stuff.
I would apriciate if some of the sysop could help me with
- looking at special page/unused files and delete them (during upload
people are warned this will happen)
I started to delete some unused files. There are an awful lot of them...
That is why I need some help :-)
but it does not matter if it takes a bit of time..I will not do the
upgrade
until end of year.
Regards
Ricardo
- looking at special page/unsed categories and delete them (WATCH out,
at
least one russian template has a remark "please do not delete")
there are too much for me alone.
Once it has been done, I will clean it from the database, so we have a
slimmer system, without loosing any information.
Jan.
Hi, Jan,
Cleaning out some files, I found a lot of students doing their homework on
the wiki :/ so I hope you will run your "delete stale unused accounts"
script again, and with the date updated to the next month. We should get
rid of a lot of stale accounts.
Thanks for helping, the list seems endless :-(
I will run the script again, but not until the upgrade is done, and if the
students have uploaded images they will not be deleted, my script searches
for users with no contributions of any kind, however I can modify it (if
the community agrees) to search for users with my PAGE contributions.
The users in question no longer have files uploaded; they've been
deleted. If your script counts deleted contributions as active, then
yes, please change it. Otherwise, the accounts will disappear properly.
BTW, I am adding a request to the Wiki Maintenance page, to install the
"CheckUser" extension. I want to use that to fight the spammers.
I looked at the extension, I can load that, no problem...but if I
understand it correctly it does not help identifying already created users.
The extension is no help in identifying new spammers, but it's a great
help in chasing them, by complaining to the ISP. I have all the
bookmarks for that, from my time as a ML moderator.
It's also helpful in identifying multiple accounts for the same user
(which is okay, unless they're all spammers!).
Did you have a look at the new create account page, on wikitest, that is
not easy for the average spammer to bypass.
It certainly looks ferocious! I hope it works.
/tj/
jan I.
/tj/
