My wiki has been getting pummeled again with bot user accounts. For some reason RemoveUnusedAccounts isn't seeing the bot accounts even though they haven't made edits and everytime I try to download any extensions I get this error "Invalid response from Extension Distributor remote client.".
________________________________ From: Jamie Thingelstad <[email protected]> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 7:32 AM Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] cleaning out a mass of unwanted users 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. Jamie Thingelstad [email protected] mobile: 612-810-3699 find me on AIM Twitter Facebook LinkedIn 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
