Mediawiki Extension UserMerge

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Source: DataSource
Language: English
Topic: Mediawiki
SubTopic: Mediawiki Extension
Last Edit By: DochyJP
LastEdit: 2021-04-14
Document type: Documentation
Status: Active
Access: free

Description

The UserMerge extension allows wiki users with the usermerge permission (Bureaucrat by default) to merge one Wiki user's account with another Wiki user's account.

The extension allows to :

  • merge (refer contributions, texts, watchlists, edit count of a first account A to a second account B)
  • delete the first account A after the merge (option box)

Limitations

  • you cannot delete a user A without having merged the user A to B
  • you cannot merge your own account (logged-in user) into a different user

Extras

  • if you omit the "New User" field, then the extension auto-populates the New User as "Anonymous" (user_id 0), and ask you to confirm a merge to Anonymous. This is used for user deletion: you first empty (merge to user 0) contributions of a user A, and then delete the user A.
  • If your version of the extension complains about an empty "New User" field you can fill in "Anonymous"
  • the extension creates a User Merge log and logs all User Merge extension activity.[1]

Installation

Download and place the file(s) in a directory called UserMerge in your extensions/ folder.

Download

Download and place the file(s) in a directory called UserMerge in your extensions/ folder.

Activation

Add the following code at the bottom of your LocalSettings.php:

wfLoadExtension( 'UserMerge' );

Configuration

// By default nobody can use this function, enable for bureaucrat?
$wgGroupPermissions['bureaucrat']['usermerge'] = true;
// optional: default is array( 'sysop' )
$wgUserMergeProtectedGroups = array( 'groupname' );




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