Steps to Reproduce:
I installed the extension by copying folder 'UserMerge' to the folder "Extensions" of my wiki. Then I added these lines to the 'LocalSettings.php':
wfLoadExtension( 'UserMerge' ); // By default nobody can use this function, enable for bureaucrat? $wgGroupPermissions['bureaucrat']['usermerge'] = true;
After that I tried to merge 'TestUser' with 'Anonymous', but I received error message:
[6cc061292b8db5d3b3f89303] /index.php/%D0%A1%D0%BB%D1%83%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%B1%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F:UserMerge CannotCreateActorException from line 2516 of C:\xampp\htdocs\math.local\includes\user\User.php: Cannot create an actor for a usable name that is not an existing user Backtrace: #0 C:\xampp\htdocs\math.local\extensions\UserMerge\includes\MergeUser.php(378): User->getActorId(Wikimedia\Rdbms\DatabaseMysqli) #1 C:\xampp\htdocs\math.local\extensions\UserMerge\includes\MergeUser.php(50): MergeUser->mergeDatabaseTables(string) #2 C:\xampp\htdocs\math.local\extensions\UserMerge\includes\SpecialUserMerge.php(135): MergeUser->merge(User, string) #3 C:\xampp\htdocs\math.local\includes\htmlform\HTMLForm.php(660): SpecialUserMerge->onSubmit(array, OOUIHTMLForm) #4 C:\xampp\htdocs\math.local\includes\htmlform\HTMLForm.php(552): HTMLForm->trySubmit() #5 C:\xampp\htdocs\math.local\includes\htmlform\HTMLForm.php(567): HTMLForm->tryAuthorizedSubmit() #6 C:\xampp\htdocs\math.local\includes\specialpage\FormSpecialPage.php(184): HTMLForm->show() #7 C:\xampp\htdocs\math.local\includes\specialpage\SpecialPage.php(569): FormSpecialPage->execute(NULL) #8 C:\xampp\htdocs\math.local\includes\specialpage\SpecialPageFactory.php(558): SpecialPage->run(NULL) #9 C:\xampp\htdocs\math1solutions.local\includes\MediaWiki.php(288): MediaWiki\Special\SpecialPageFactory->executePath(Title, RequestContext) #10 C:\xampp\htdocs\math.local\includes\MediaWiki.php(865): MediaWiki->performRequest() #11 C:\xampp\htdocs\math.local\includes\MediaWiki.php(515): MediaWiki->main() #12 C:\xampp\htdocs\math.local\index.php(42): MediaWiki->run() #13 {main}
I tried to use this extension on local server and on shared hosting - the result was the same.