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[Epic] Update CheckUser for temporary accounts
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CheckUser needs a few updates to accommodate temporary accounts (see subtasks).

See also the investigation T331752.

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 ResolvedkostajhT294511 2021 Security Team wikireplicas audit
 DeclinedNoneT284948 Raw IPs of logged-out users disclosed in wiki-replicas
 Resolved• NiharikaT324492 Temporary accounts - MVP
 ResolvedMadalinaT326816 [Epic] Update features for temporary accounts
 Resolved• Dreamy_JazzT336477 [Epic] Update CheckUser for temporary accounts
 Resolved• Dreamy_JazzT336512 Remove convinence link to "checks by this user" on Special:Contribution pages of temporary accounts
 DuplicateNoneT336514 Update CheckUser extension to work with temporary accounts
 DeclinedNoneT336664 Refactor $user->getName() to distinguish between temporary and registered users
 DeclinedNoneT337234 Accommodate temporary users to check if a name is a temporary user name
 Resolved• Dreamy_JazzT353953 Don't use actor IDs for private CheckUser events when these actions are performed by IP addresses
 Resolved• Dreamy_JazzT359965 Update Special:CheckUser to handle 'NULL' as the value of cupe_actor in some of the rows of cu_private_event
 Resolved• Dreamy_JazzT359962 Write null to cu_private_event.cupe_actor if temporary accounts are enabled and the performer is an IP address
 ResolvedABran-WMFT360332 Make the cupe_actor column nullable on WMF wikis
 Resolved• Dreamy_JazzT359873 Make the cupe_private column nullable
 DeclinedABran-WMFT366241 Switchover s2 master (db2207 -> db2204)
 ResolvedABran-WMFT366242 Switchover s3 master (db2205 -> db2127)
 Resolved• Dreamy_JazzT366505 Stop writing old for event table migration in extension.json
 Resolved• Dreamy_JazzT329189 Add read new support to Special:Investigate for event table migration
 Resolved• Dreamy_JazzT329200 Enable read new support in Special:Investigate's 'Timeline' tab
 Resolved• Dreamy_JazzT329201 Enable read new support in Special:Investigate's 'IPs & User agents' tab
 Resolved• Dreamy_JazzT347102 Alias column names in Special:Investigate to not include the "cuc_" prefix
 Resolved• Dreamy_JazzT362152 Improve test coverage on Special:Investigate code
 ResolvedSecurity• Dreamy_JazzT338419 CVE-2024-40609: Wikimedia\RequestTimeout\RequestTimeoutException on Special:Investigate timeline mode
 Declined• Dreamy_JazzT363376 Move code that groups and sorts the rows from the CheckUser result tables to the CheckUserLookupUtils service to reduce duplication
 Resolved• Dreamy_JazzT341827 Add read new support to the CheckUser API
 Resolved• Dreamy_JazzT354643 Queries to cu_log_event on large wikis are exceeding TransactionProfiler limits on Special:CheckUser
 Resolved• Dreamy_JazzT360622 Use the CheckUserLookupUtils service in Special:CheckUser pager classes
 Resolved• Dreamy_JazzT360962 Create ApiQueryCheckUserResponseFactory service
 Resolved• Dreamy_JazzT360963 Implement response classes for the CheckUser API
 Resolved• Dreamy_JazzT360961 Create ApiQueryCheckUserAbstractResponse
 Resolved• Dreamy_JazzT360072 Alias select fields in ApiQueryCheckUser
 Resolved• Dreamy_JazzT360106 Improve test coverage on ApiQueryCheckUser
 Resolved• Dreamy_JazzT360453 Create the CheckUserLookupUtils service
 ResolvedBUG REPORT• Dreamy_JazzT361722 'ipusers' does not handle 'cupe_actor' as NULL
 Resolved• Dreamy_JazzT341829 Enable read new for the event table migration
 Resolved• Dreamy_JazzT330158 Enable write new for the event table migration
 Resolved• Dreamy_JazzT328874 Create temporary column in cu_changes to assist in migration to the new tables
 ResolvedMarosteguiT329203 Add new column cuc_only_for_read_old to cu_changes for migration purposes to wmf wikis
 Resolved• Dreamy_JazzT341586 Allow write old and new for event table migration
 ResolvedPRODUCTION ERROR• Dreamy_JazzT342902 Wikimedia\Rdbms\DBQueryError: Error 1054: Unknown column 'cuc_only_for_read_old' in 'field list'Function: MediaWiki\CheckUser\Hooks::onAuthManagerLoginAuthenticateAuditQuery: INSERT INTO `cu_changes` (cuc_page_id,cuc_namespac
 ResolvedMarosteguiT343174 Add missing column cuc_only_for_read_old to testcommonswiki
 ResolvedLadsgroupT326105 Create cu_log_event and cu_private_event on WMF wikis
 Resolved• Dreamy_JazzT328992 Add read new support to Special:CheckUser for event table migration
 Resolved• Dreamy_JazzT328995 Enable read new support in Special:CheckUser's 'Get edits' mode
 ResolvedBUG REPORT• Dreamy_JazzT347773 Log action text shown when reading new does not respect the deleted status of the log
 Resolved• Dreamy_JazzT328997 Enable read new support in Special:CheckUser's 'Get users' mode
 Resolved• Dreamy_JazzT328998 Enable read new support in Special:CheckUser's 'Get IP Addresses' mode
 Resolved• Dreamy_JazzT328988 Create a SelectQueryBuilder that allows selecting from all three tables
 Resolved• Dreamy_JazzT342629 Investigate CheckUser currently saving failed login attempted to usernames which fail RIGOR_VALID
 Resolved• Dreamy_JazzT341688 Create LogFormatter for cu_private_event log events
 ResolvedBUG REPORT• Dreamy_JazzT347400 Read new cannot parse the log_params of global block log entries
 ResolvedBUG REPORT• Dreamy_JazzT347669 moveLogEntriesFromCuChanges import inconsistencies
 DeclinedNoneT357974 Update CheckUser interfaces to autocreate a temporary account if an IP is running a check and temporary accounts are enabled

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Cyndymediawiksim created this task.May 11 2023, 9:59 AM
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Cyndymediawiksim updated the task description. (Show Details)May 22 2023, 12:09 PM
Cyndymediawiksim mentioned this in T331752: Investigate: Update CheckUser for IP Masking.May 22 2023, 12:40 PM
• Niharika closed subtask T336512: Remove convinence link to "checks by this user" on Special:Contribution pages of temporary accounts as Resolved.Nov 6 2023, 9:57 PM
• Dreamy_Jazz added a subtask: T353953: Don't use actor IDs for private CheckUser events when these actions are performed by IP addresses.Dec 22 2023, 3:42 PM
• Dreamy_Jazz closed subtask T337234: Accommodate temporary users to check if a name is a temporary user name as Declined.
• Dreamy_Jazz closed subtask T336664: Refactor $user->getName() to distinguish between temporary and registered users as Declined.Dec 22 2023, 3:45 PM
• Dreamy_Jazz added a subtask: T357974: Update CheckUser interfaces to autocreate a temporary account if an IP is running a check and temporary accounts are enabled.Feb 20 2024, 12:48 PM
• Dreamy_Jazz added a parent task: T326816: [Epic] Update features for temporary accounts.Feb 20 2024, 4:39 PM
Tchanders renamed this task from Update CheckUser for IP Masking to [Epic] Update CheckUser for IP Masking.Mar 1 2024, 11:03 AM
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kostajh renamed this task from [Epic] Update CheckUser for IP Masking to [Epic] Update CheckUser for temporary accounts.May 23 2024, 7:19 AM
kostajh mentioned this in T336514: Update CheckUser extension to work with temporary accounts.
kostajh merged a task: T336514: Update CheckUser extension to work with temporary accounts.
kostajh added subscribers: kostajh, • Dreamy_Jazz.
Tchanders moved this task from Inbox to Create/update essential tools/anti-abuse management on the Temporary accounts board.Jun 4 2024, 3:23 PM
Tchanders edited projects, added: Temporary accounts (Create/update essential tools/anti-abuse management); removed: Temporary accounts.
• Dreamy_Jazz closed subtask T353953: Don't use actor IDs for private CheckUser events when these actions are performed by IP addresses as Resolved.Jun 5 2024, 3:35 PM
Xaosflux subscribed.Jul 17 2024, 2:44 PM
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kostajh closed this task as Resolved.Sep 8 2024, 7:47 AM
kostajh assigned this task to • Dreamy_Jazz.

T357974: Update CheckUser interfaces to autocreate a temporary account if an IP is running a check and temporary accounts are enabled is a "someday" task, and not urgent. Marking this as resolved. Thanks for all your work on these tasks, @Dreamy_Jazz!

• Dreamy_Jazz closed subtask T357974: Update CheckUser interfaces to autocreate a temporary account if an IP is running a check and temporary accounts are enabled as Declined.Feb 24 2026, 4:05 PM
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