Extension:BlockInactive

This extension is professionally maintained by the WikiTeq team.

WikiTeq provides official support for MediaWiki LTS releases only. It may work with other MediaWiki releases.

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BlockInactive Release status: stable
Description	The extension helps wiki administrators to keep track of inactive users, send warning emails and block accounts.
Author(s)	WikiWorks team
Maintainer(s)	WikiTeq team
Compatibility policy	For every MediaWiki release that is a Long Term Support release there is a corresponding branch in the extension.
MediaWiki	1.35+
Tables	blockinactive_emails
License	MIT License
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Parameters $wgBlockInactiveThreshold $wgBlockInactiveDaysBlock $wgBlockInactiveWarningDaysLeft
Tags users,block,inactive
Added rights blockinactive,alwaysactive
Hooks used UserLoginComplete LoadExtensionSchemaUpdates
Quarterly downloads	7 (Ranked 129th)
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Issues	Open tasks · Report a bug

The extension is intended to help wiki administrators to keep track of inactive users, send warning emails to such users and then automatically block their account if no action were taken in time.

It's possible to configure number of days since last login to be considered as inactivity, number of days since last login to actually block a user account and setup a schedule for warning messages to be sent prior to blocking.

This extension was created for WikiWorks.

Installation

• Download and move the extracted BlockInactive folder to your extensions/ directory.
  Developers and code contributors should install the extension from Git instead, using:cd extensions/
git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/extensions/BlockInactive
• Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php file:

  wfLoadExtension( 'BlockInactive' );
  

• Run the update script which will automatically create the necessary database tables that this extension needs.
•  Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.

see Special:BlockInactive page.

Due to some of the queries used, this extension is currently not compatible with SQLite.

Configuration

Name	Default	Description
$wgBlockInactiveThreshold	210	Number of days since the last login to start considering user as inactive and begin sending reminders
$wgBlockInactiveDaysBlock	270	Number of days since the last login to actually block the user
$wgBlockInactiveWarningDaysLeft	[ 30, 5 ]	Schedule in form of days left before blocking to send warning emails on

Configure cron to run maintenance/blockinactive.php script @daily

Permissions

• blockinactive - allows to view the Special:BlockInactive page, by default is granted to sysop and bureaucrat groups.