Temporary accounts: Log successful creations
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	kostajh
	Nov 14 2025, 11:18 AM

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Summary

It would be useful to log successful temporary account creations in Logstash with the security log context so that we have better realtime insight into temporary account creation activity.

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Successful temporary account creations are logged in Logstash with the security log context

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Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	EditPage: Log temporary account creation attempts	mediawiki/core	master	+9 -1

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kostajh created this task.Nov 14 2025, 11:18 AM

Restricted Application added a project: Product Safety and Integrity. · View Herald TranscriptNov 14 2025, 11:18 AM

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Change #1205122 had a related patch set uploaded (by Kosta Harlan; author: Kosta Harlan):

[mediawiki/core@master] EditPage: Log temporary account creation attempts

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1205122

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Nov 14 2025, 11:30 AM

kostajh edited projects, added Product Safety and Integrity (Crepes au Chocolat (Sprint Nov 10 - Nov 28)); removed Product Safety and Integrity.Nov 14 2025, 11:31 AM

kostajh moved this task from Backlog to Needs review on the Product Safety and Integrity (Crepes au Chocolat (Sprint Nov 10 - Nov 28)) board.

Change #1205122 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] EditPage: Log temporary account creation attempts

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1205122

Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Nov 19 2025, 10:31 AM

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.46-notes (1.46.0-wmf.4; 2025-11-25).Nov 19 2025, 11:00 AM

Dreamy_Jazz assigned this task to kostajh.Nov 19 2025, 2:02 PM

Dreamy_Jazz moved this task from Needs review to Done on the Product Safety and Integrity (Crepes au Chocolat (Sprint Nov 10 - Nov 28)) board.

Niharika closed this task as Resolved.Wed, Jan 21, 2:23 PM

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