[Wiki-dev] removal of unused accounts?

[Bill Traynor]

David Anders wrote:
> Bill,
>
> is there a date argument you can use ? i.e. if the account was created 
> more than 6 months ago?
>

Nope.  I suppose I could make a change to the script though.

>
> Dave
>
>
> --- On *Tue, 1/26/10, Bill Traynor /<bill at alphatroop.com>/* wrote:
>
>
>     From: Bill Traynor <bill at alphatroop.com>
>     Subject: [Wiki-dev] removal of unused accounts?
>     To: wiki-dev at elinux.org
>     Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 1:08 PM
>
>     I've always been curious how many active or real users we have on
>     elinux.org.  Today I ran a maintenance script called
>     removedUnusedAccounts.php (it's in the maintenance dir of mediawiki
>     installations) with no options and found the following:
>
>     There are 1275 Users that meet the cirteria of the script, that is
>     "An
>     unused account is one which has no edits, no deleted edits, no log
>     entries and no current/old uploads." according to the script
>     documentation.
>
>     The User Table row count equals 2135 giving us an active user base of
>     860.  Does anyone think it's worth pinging the user base encouraging
>     them to make an edit, at the very least to their User page?  Or,
>     is it
>     wise to simply run the script again with the -delete option and purge
>     those users?
>
>     I can't imagine that all 1275 of these inactive users are truly
>     inactive.  Perhaps they just need a nudge.
>
>     Thoughts?
>
>     Thanks
>     Bill
>
>
>
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