User:Ilya/OpenWetWare/User management

Database tricks

• To give "developer" access to the user (also, there is a user_groups table):

UPDATE user_rights SET ur_rights="sysop,bureaucrat,developer" WHERE ur_user=3;

• /data/web/admin/update_userstats.sql will update the user stat count to match the real number. Currently it'll have to be run manually:

update site_stats set ss_users=(select max(user_id) as total from user);

or

update site_stats set ss_users=(select count(*) from user);

• To find all edits made by a user ID:

select page_title from page,revision where page_id = rev_page and rev_user = ;

• To find duplicate accounts (diff user IDs with the same email address):

select distinct a.user_id,a.user_name,a.user_real_name,a.user_email
from user a, user b
where a.user_email = b.user_email
and a.user_id != b.user_id
and a.user_email != 
order by a.user_email;

• To find the real number of users (subtract duplicates as defined above but include blank emails) - does not work yet

select distinct a.user_id
from user a, user b
where a.user_email != b.user_email
and a.user_id = b.user_id;

Deleting user

• Should be done only if a user doesn't have any contributions yet (otherwise this would destroy referential integrity in the DB); this can be easily checked (change Username in the URL to the username of interest)

• How do I delete a user from my list of users?

• SQL query from http://nasa.iu.hio.no/wiki/index.php/MetaWiki

mysql> DELETE from user WHERE user_name='The Username';

• http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2005-May/004953.html

If I actually remove a user account it's one that's 100% been used for malicious purposes, so I want to get rid of any traces of the existence, including in the recentchanges table which is easy by something like

delete from recentchanges where rc_user_text = "YoGa";

• How to update all the references to the user ID: http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2005-May/005282.html

Renaming user

• But can I rename the user, then?
• Renaming Mediawiki Users in 1.5
• Extension can be used by bureaucrats from ver 1.5:
• Manually:
  • create a new user
  • run reassignEdits.sh

    reassignEdits.sh <wikiname> <from> <to>

    <wikiname> : e.g., openwetware

    <from> : Name of the user to assign edits from

    <to> : Name of the user to assign edits to

  • delete old user (see above) and the User:olduser page

Miscellaneous

• OpenID and account management on subwikis (from Austin):
  • I've eliminated all but login via openwetware on subwiki. See http://test.private.openwetware.org/
  • For account management, see http://test.private.openwetware.org/wiki/Special:OWWadmin
• Bulk account creation:
  • How do I add multiple user accounts?
  • ImportUser extension imports users from a CSV file
• Tables that contain user ID field:
  • user:user_id (PK)
  • user_newtalk:user_id (FK)
  • user_groups:ug_user (FK)
  • watchlist:wl_user (FK)
  • revision:rev_user (FK)
  • recentchanges:rc_user (FK)
  • image:img_user (FK)
  • oldimage:oi_user (FK)
  • filearchive:fa_user
  • logging:log_user (FK)
  • ipblocks:ipb_by (FK)