It would be handy to be able to check only new accounts on the specified range. That way, if a checkuser is looking for re-incarnations, they can search a wider range without being overwhelmed by all the edits by the established, and more active, users.
Also, this would mean that established users don't turn up in checkuser results unless explicitly requested.
| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Add filter for established users for Get edits and Get users | mediawiki/extensions/CheckUser | master | +113 -44 |
(In reply to comment #1)
What is diffrent from bug 24231 ?
Activity by new accounts vs. account creation.
To achieve this there would need to be a way to determine what makes a user "new". Options that I see:
On enwiki the extendedconfirmed user group is often used to determine between new and established users. However, that cannot be relied on globally or on wikis outside the WMF sphere. Ideally some number of edits + age combination, probably customisable through a wiki global, would make sense here. Then a checkbox to exclude established users
on IP checks could be added that when checked excludes results for accounts with under the certain age / edit count. This is likely to make the query more complicated, but this should ideally be server side and in the SQL statement so that a query run time benefit from not including established users can be gained.
Change 808262 had a related patch set uploaded (by Dreamy Jazz; author: Dreamy Jazz):
[mediawiki/extensions/CheckUser@master] Add filter for established users for Get edits and Get users
Change 808262 abandoned by Dreamy Jazz:
[mediawiki/extensions/CheckUser@master] Add filter for established users for Get edits and Get users
Reason:
Abandoning as this is long-term stale and behind several patches that merge conflict with this.
Unassigning as the patch needed improvement and this task is less important than others with patches open.