Setting $wgLogAutocreatedAccounts to false makes admin's jobs difficult
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	MarkAHershberger
	Mar 24 2011, 9:07 PM

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In order to address privacy concerns from auto-created accounts (Bug #19161), $wgLogAutocreatedAccounts was created so that accounts which were auto-created because of CentralAuth would not be logged.

This change makes it difficult for admins to patrol their wiki's for malicious users since they can't see newly created accounts.

A way to handle the privacy concerns without impeding the admins' work should be found.

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Severity: enhancement

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Reference: bz28227

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 11:32 PM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup.

• bzimport set Reference to bz28227.

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MarkAHershberger created this task.Mar 24 2011, 9:07 PM

This was fixed by removing the configuration variable, r85128.

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