There are several widgets that accept user name input. These are currently configurable to accept existing user names, IP addresses and/or IP ranges.
Currently, if these widgets accept existing user names, this includes temporary user names.
We may need to specify temporary user names separately from named users.
Note that due to inheritance, it may not be necessary to make changes to all widgets.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | Amdrel | T353561 Disallow entering a temporary user name for mute email preferences | |||
| Resolved | Amdrel | T341684 Temp Users should not show up on the dropdown in Special:UserRights | |||
| Resolved | Amdrel | T332030 Update user name widgets config to accept or deny temporary user names |
Basically the user-related form fields need two extra optional boolean paramaters onlynamed / onlytemp (or something like that) which
(Alternatively, temp/named filtering could be added to the list=allusers API and the form could make use of that. That's nicer in general but has an ugly edge case which is not relevant for the form fields: when iterating through users with onlynamed=1 and no auprefix, you'd end up with a query like SELECT * FROM user WHERE user_name >= $offset AND user_name NOT LIKE '*%' LIMIT $limit and that query will perform catastrophically poorly when iteration reaches to usernames starting with *.)
Change 947359 had a related patch set uploaded (by TsepoThoabala; author: TsepoThoabala):
[mediawiki/core@master] Update user name widgets config to accept or deny temporary user names
@TThoabala Thanks for the patch! This seems like good advice, but I notice the patch only does the first one:
Just wondered if there was a reason behind this?
Change #1054960 had a related patch set uploaded (by Amdrel; author: Amdrel):
[mediawiki/extensions/CentralAuth@master] Update user name widgets config to accept or deny temporary user names
Change #1054961 had a related patch set uploaded (by Amdrel; author: Amdrel):
[mediawiki/core@master] Update user name widgets config to accept or deny temporary user names
Change #1054961 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@master] Update user widgets to support named and temp account exclusion
Change #947359 abandoned by Kosta Harlan:
[mediawiki/core@master] Update user name widgets config to accept or deny temporary user names
Reason:
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Change #1054960 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/CentralAuth@master] Update user name widgets config to accept or deny temporary user names
Yeah it is. It's used by HTMLGlobalUserTextField->getInputWidget, and HTMLGlobalUserTextField is used in the form field descriptors in the following special pages:
QA has been completed, and the new code changes are functioning as expected for the affected widgets (API for 'globalallusers' allows filtering of accounts using the parameters 'excludetemp' and 'excludenamed').