Extension talk:UserMerge/LQT Archive 1

No Logging?
Shouldn't there be log entries for merge&delete? --NoLuck 22:46, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Dunno, should there be? I never really planned for it to be used frequently enough - but considering that one should be able to rebuild an entire system using Logs - if there's a User creation log, there should most definately be a user deletion log.  I'll take a look at how the User Creation logs are being done.
 * well, there doesn't seem to be a user creation log - maybe no real need for that as this is a pure constructive act done by the concerned person himself ... however, after a user merge/deletion it could be good to know when that happened and who enacted that function... Extension:Renameuser is using a "user rename" log for its own purposes - so I guess you're not restricted on the standard log entries. Thx for consideration btw :) --NoLuck 21:02, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, similar f/ the User Creation log - there is one, but it's part of an extension. Still, I'll look in to it.  ;-)  Maybe even implement if it doesn't give me a headache.
 * Ok, v1.2 (r27730) now has a User Merge log. ;-)
 * cool, thx! :-) --NoLuck 16:23, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

User Pages
Would like to see this also deleting the User Page and User Discussion page for the deleted user.

Apart from that, works a treat - thanks for providing this.

BrillyuntWebby 18:20, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
 * What should it do in the case of a Merge? Append to the new user?  Or just flat out, always delete the old user's page?  Or maybe a checkbox?  But I agree, it should do *something* with the old user's page... but if you don't delete it... and you don't wanna append it... where should it go?
 * I'd go for having them deleted anyway with the option (checkbox) to append the content to the new users User and Discussion page. Wolverine 15:16, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Statistics
When deleting the old user the statistics counter (ss_users in table site_stats) remains unchanged. So Special:Statistics shows more registered users than really exist/are listed by Special:Listusers. I think it should be possible to decrement the value in the database when deleting an user. I fixed this manually in our wiki and so far it didn't seem to have side-effects (i.e. when a new user registers). Wolverine 15:20, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
 * good point - i'll decrement that in the next release. Tim Laqua talk 16:17, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
 * great,thx! :-) The extension was already quite useful against "I forgot my account, ah ... I just create another one" users. ;-) With that, and the above optional merge of User and Discussion page it becomes complete (for me). So it's just one action and no further manual work neccessary. Nice! :-) Wolverine 08:57, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Database
When i used the stable version of this extension on my 1.11.0 fresh wiki, i noticed it leaves residues of the removed users in the database, in places like searchindex and recentchanges (and many others). Shouldn't this be fixed?
 * I'll take a look - The true intent of the extension is to allow removal of users while maintaining the referential ingegrity of the database. Where exactly did you notice fragments?  Tim Laqua talk 12:20, 18 January 2008 (UTC)