Manual:reassignEdits.php

MediaWiki file:Manual:Code reassignEdits.php
Location:	maintenance/
Source code:	master • 1.29.0 • 1.28.2
Classes:	ReassignEdits

Details

reassignEdits.php file is a maintenance script to reassign edits from a user or IP address to another user.

Usage

php reassignEdits.php [--force|--quiet|--norc|--report] <from> <to>

Parameters

Option/Parameter	Description
<from>	username or IP address to assign edits from
<to>	username to assign edits to
--force	reassign even if the target user doesn't exist
--quiet	don't print status information (except for errors)
--norc	don't update the recent changes table
--report	print out details of what would be changed, but don't update it

Spaces inside a username must be replaced with underscores ( _ ).

Warning:

Bug: Currently (MW 1.19.1) the script is not updating the file history, that is, fields img_user and img_user_text from the Image table. See the discussion for a workaround.