WikiIndex:2013-2014 bugs and upgrades: Difference between revisions

# [[mw:Extension:TitleBlacklist]] — ''Pro:'' can be used to stop spambots from creating accounts – ''Con:'' looks complicated

# [[mw:Extension:Renameuser]] — ''Pro:'' allows people who registered under an alias to have account changed to [[RealName]] and maintain edit histories – ''Con:'' none

# [[mw:Extension:User Merge and Delete]] — ''Pro:'' Rename changes the name of one account, whereas this can merge or combine two accounts into one, and deletes the account not needed.  – ''Con:'' Very dangerous, can permanently delete user accounts'' (but this can be set for 'crat permission only)

## ''Pro:'' I've used it on my own localhost wiki to get rid of surplus test accounts when testing out extensions, and while the danger of screwing up an actual account is real, it could be used to trim the database of obvious spam accounts. ''Con'': Cannot be done as a batch, must do one merge and delete job at a time. [[User:Arcane|Arcane]] ([[User talk:Arcane|talk]]) 05:34, 30 April 2013 (PDT)Arcane  - so basically you are saying we could clean up the spam accounts by deleting the one at a time? ~~ [[MarkDilley]] - Yes, unfortunately. It may be possible to code a bot or script with a selected list of spam accounts to trim and execute this script multiple times, never tried it myself, but in-wiki, it only works one at a time. [[User:Arcane|Arcane]] ([[User talk:Arcane|talk]]) 14:10, 30 April 2013 (PDT)Arcane  - ''sounds brilliant, with the bot thing :-) I could see one person having control over a bot and a list. ~~ [[MarkDilley]]''

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