Manual talk:RemoveUnusedAccounts.php

doesnt work

MediaWiki 1.16.0 (r78352)

PHP 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.10 (apache2handler)

MySQL 5.1.41-3ubuntu12.8

old issues

here is what this script lists when ran: php removeUnusedAccounts.php --delete PHP Deprecated: Comments starting with '#' are deprecated in /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/mcrypt.ini on line 1 in Unknown on line 0 PHP Notice: Use of undefined constant user - assumed 'user' in .... on line 204 Remove unused accounts Checking for unused user accounts... ...found 0. Line 204 of localsettings: $wgNamespacePermissionLockdown[user]['edit'] = array('syop'); Deleted the line in localsettings, then ran it again: php removeUnusedAccounts.php --delete PHP Deprecated: Comments starting with '#' are deprecated in /etc/php5/cli/conf.d/mcrypt.ini on line 1 in Unknown on line 0 Remove unused accounts Checking for unused user accounts... ...found 0. Line in mcrypt: configuration for php MCrypt module extension=mcrypt.so Deleted the line in mcrypt: # configuration for php MCrypt module Ran again.

php removeUnusedAccounts.php --delete

Remove unused accounts

Checking for unused user accounts...

...found 0.

I have hundreds of unused spambot user accounts. Igottheconch (talk) 05:24, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

Hi there!

You should try an update to a current version of MediaWiki - 1.16 is no longer supported and has known security holes.

For me the script works as expected: Correct numbers and also deleting accounts works. Note that the script only considers those accounts, which never had any log entries. That means: Even if you deleted the only spam page, which was created by a user, this user will not be considered unused anymore; it is not enough to only remove the spam revisions, you actually have to delete them from the database completely (e.g. with the deleteArchivedRevisions.php script). --88.130.83.103 00:27, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

Using Array to get user list

Just a note that using an array to get all users prior to deleting them is not a good method. I have over 300,000 spam users I am trying to remove and my server is a small (amazon ec2 micro) server. So PHP is eating all the cpu and mem. It would be better to do them in batches at least.

Error in the documentation re --ignore-touched

Under Options it says for --ignore-touched: If not set, it defaults to "1". In this case the script will check/remove all unused accounts up to the current date, including accounts created just a few seconds ago.

But this is not true. The default for $touchedSeconds is 86400, so 24 hours. So the script does NOT remove accounts created just a few seconds ago. DonnyPro (talk) 08:44, 26 August 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for calling this out! If you're willing, feel free to update the page. APaskulin (WMF) (talk) 16:49, 10 September 2024 (UTC)