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[edit]What does "keep it as is" mean, in the sentence "If you are worried about this, you may want to create an account or keep it as is"? WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:49, 29 January 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks @WhatamIdoing. These words were added by an IP and I don't quite get the intention either. SGrabarczuk (WMF) (talk) 01:33, 6 February 2025 (UTC)
- Perhaps it was advice to third-party MediaWiki installations (e.g., "don't upgrade if you don't want this feature"). I've removed that bit, and leave the rest of those edits to your discretion. WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:03, 6 February 2025 (UTC)
detecting if a temporary account has expired
[edit]Hello,
Is there a way to determine whether a temporary account has expired? My use case involves a gadget that distributes messages on the talk pages of the contributors of an article when an AfD procedure is initiated. It would be pointless to notify a user who no longer exists. Escargot bleu (talk) 16:08, 15 February 2025 (UTC)
- Currently you'd have to look up the user's registration date in the API, then figure out the expiry time (it's configurable, defaulting to 90 days, it seems that there's no API for this), then do the math yourself. There's a task filed about exposing this in the API better: T358030. Matma Rex (talk) 00:05, 16 February 2025 (UTC)
A couple issues with the notable aspects
[edit]I have a couple small issues with the help page:
- "Temporary accounts have their own user pages and user talk pages, but they will eventually delink from the person who made the page." I'm not sure if I understand this correctly but the sentence seems to assume that the user/user talk pages would be always created by the temporary user themselves? For user talk pages it's usually somebody else.
- "You could redirect your temporary user page to your new account." Wherther or not this is allowed depends on local user page policies. Some sort of local policy caveat should be added for temporary account user pages.