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Have new MassMessage system users be automatically attached to CentralAuth
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Description

On Wikimedia wikis, where MediaWiki-extensions-CentralAuth is used; the bot accounts used by MassMessage do not even appear as "unnatached" on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/MediaWiki_message_delivery. This seems to be a bug of some sort.

New MassMessage system users should be automatically attached to CentralAuth upon new wiki creations.

This also allows local projects to get GlobalUserPage descriptions of those system accounts, reducing confusion.

Thank you.

Event Timeline

Change 709211 had a related patch set uploaded (by Zabe; author: Zabe):

[mediawiki/extensions/MassMessage@master] Attach new MassMessage accounts to the global account

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/709211

Not realy a duplicate. The other task is about attaching the accounts in wikimedia production, while this one is about making this happen automatically.

Change 715805 had a related patch set uploaded (by Umherirrender; author: Umherirrender):

[mediawiki/core@master] Call LocalUserCreatedHook from User::newSystemUser on creation

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/715805

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Change 715805 abandoned by Umherirrender:

[mediawiki/core@master] Call LocalUserCreatedHook from User::newSystemUser on creation

Reason:

May not the best way to fix this

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/715805

Change 709211 abandoned by Zabe:

[mediawiki/extensions/MassMessage@master] Attach new MassMessage accounts to the global account

Reason:

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/709211