Thank you very much for your answer. Sorry to ask this, but how can I "delete the other [ghost] account" ? Should I use the User_Merge_and_Delete extension or is there a better way ?
Laurent 2010/10/3 Brion Vibber <[email protected]>: > On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Wikimini wrote: > >> I'm going to merge my Wikisysop account (say "Larry") with a wiki user's >> account (say "Jimmy"). As a result, I want to keep the name of the 2nd >> account ("Jimmy"). >> >> Is that a bad idea? >> > > There's nothing special about the initial sysop account other than what user > groups it's in, so as long as those are preserved it should work fine... > > >> Some more info : "Jimmy" account is a "ghost account". I created it but >> never used it (contributions = 0). >> >> I could do that with the User_Merge_and_Delete extension ( >> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:User_Merge_and_Delete). Maybe >> there >> is a better way ? >> > > It looks like that extension by default won't let you merge sysops; you > could tweak around its settings, but it sounds like the simplest thing in > your case would actually be to delete your unused target account and rename > the sysop account. > > You could also add the sysop, bureaucrat etc groups to the other account if > you don't need to transfer edit attributions. > > -- brion > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
