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Verify if Temporary Accounts require any changes to Wiki Replicas
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Temporary Accounts modify the ways MediaWiki stores user information in database tables. Some technical info is available at Temporary Accounts/For Developers.

This task is to establish if we need to modify anything in the Wiki Replicas views and filters, for example:

  • is there any new information added to the database by Temporary Accounts that we should expose in Wiki Replicas views?
  • is there any information that is currently exposed in Wiki Replicas views that we should hide when Temporary Accounts go live?

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@kostajh do you have any suggestions/concerns about this?

@fnegri is there a list of views/filters with a description of their purpose, that we could review?

Also noting that temporary accounts are already live on testwiki and test2wiki (since July), so you should be able to check for any concerning issues based on temporary account creations that happened on those wikis already.

My suspicion, though, is that there's not going to be much to update. Temporary accounts will look like regular user accounts in terms of public facing data in the replicas. Private data for those accounts will be in CheckUser tables that are not visible on the replicas.

@kostajh thanks! As far as I know, there is no list with descriptions, but there are raw yaml lists:

Also, is there any non-sensitive new table/column that was added by Temporary accounts and might be worth adding to replicas?

there are raw yaml lists:

Apologies, one link was wrong, I fixed it now.

fnegri changed the task status from Open to In Progress.Oct 22 2024, 5:25 PM

Looks like there is nothing we need to do for this one. I also created T378516: Check impact of Temporary Accounts on Toolforge tools to track any potential issues with tools.