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Disable wmgNewUserMessageOnAutoCreate from Extension:NewUserMessage on knwiki
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Wiki link: https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/

Feature summary: Disable welcoming new autocreated accounts through mediawiki:Extension:NewUserMessage T172894: Enable Extension:NewUserMessage on knwiki

Discussion link: https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:VP#Change_to_Extension%3ANewUserMessage_on_Kannada_wikipedia

Hello with reference to discussion link above i would like to request changes to disable welcoming new autocreated accounts through NewUserMessage extension, reason for requesting this change is that I have noticed where some autocreated accounts tend to empty there talk page or mark it for deletion. also it serves no purpose for posting welcome message to automatically created accounts

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Aklapper renamed this task from Changes to Extension:NewUserMessage configuration on knwiki to Disable Extension:NewUserMessage on knwiki.Aug 20 2021, 7:19 AM
Aklapper renamed this task from Disable Extension:NewUserMessage on knwiki to Disable welcoming autocreated accounts via Extension:NewUserMessage on knwiki.
Peachey88 renamed this task from Disable welcoming autocreated accounts via Extension:NewUserMessage on knwiki to Disable wmgNewUserMessageOnAutoCreate from Extension:NewUserMessage on knwiki.Aug 20 2021, 10:55 AM
Peachey88 updated the task description. (Show Details)

Change 714827 had a related patch set uploaded (by Urbanecm; author: Urbanecm):

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] knwiki: Disable wmgNewUserMessageOnAutoCreate

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/714827

Anoop moved this task from Backlog to Working on on the Wikimedia-Site-requests board.
Anoop added a subscriber: Urbanecm_WMF.

since @Urbanecm_WMF working on this updated task

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Working on this, but from my volunteer hat

Change 714827 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/mediawiki-config@master] knwiki: Disable wmgNewUserMessageOnAutoCreate

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/714827

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2021-08-30T13:53:13Z] <urbanecm@deploy1002> Synchronized wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php: f1a178e1d4d7c98a1988da68982f97848f390c68: knwiki: Disable wmgNewUserMessageOnAutoCreate (T289333) (duration: 00m 57s)

Anoop changed the subtype of this task from "Feature Request" to "Task".Apr 15 2023, 4:56 AM