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	Jun 21 2006, 8:11 PM

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Author: linuxbeak

Description:
This has been toyed around with in the past, but I would like to get something
solid rolling. All one needs to do is look at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Listusers to see that it is completely
useless. I am requesting a flag that bureaucrats can assign to banned or test
accounts (similar to the bot flag). The effects of such a flag are the following:

1.) Hides the account name from Special:Listusers (this is arguably the most
important)
2.) Prevents anyone from logging in to the account (effectively locking the
account out)

Thanks for looking,

[[en:User:Linuxbeak]]

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement

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Reference: bz6397

Related Objects

Mentioned In: T98799: Make it more obvious that users can remove their e-mail address
T96880: Allow users to disable account and remove email in Grants review app
Mentioned Here: T6415: delete user name function

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 9:21 PM

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

• bzimport set Reference to bz6397.

• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

• bzimport created this task.Jun 21 2006, 8:11 PM

stanley wrote:

I think this bug is duplicate of bug 4350

robchur wrote:

*** Bug 4350 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Would it be in order to have a flag which allows revisions by that user to be
hidden also?

robchur wrote:

No. That's a whole other kettle of fish, and I don't think it's a road we want
to go down.

omniplex wrote:

Please make sure that "invisible" users can't edit
or anything else except from maybe changing their
preferences. The "invisible" special pages already
make me nervous. But getting rid of this !!!! crap
on en:we: would be really nice.

robchur wrote:

(In reply to comment #5)

Please make sure that "invisible" users can't edit
or anything else except from maybe changing their
preferences. The "invisible" special pages already
make me nervous. But getting rid of this !!!! crap
on en:we: would be really nice.

Is that not implied with #2 of the original request?

robchur wrote:

*** Bug 7212 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 9391 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

This is included in revisiondelete, which will be added in MW 1.11. HOWEVER, it
is meant to be used for libel/personal info, not just names like "Boobbss!!".

One possiblity for casual hiding would be to add a global variable like
$wgHideBlockedUsers to have blocked names hidden from listusers.

How about just automatically hiding all names that are blocked before they ever make an edit,
for starters. If someone is blocked without having made an edit, there's a pretty damn good
chance it was because of their username.

(In reply to comment #11)

How about just automatically hiding all names that are blocked before they

ever make an edit,

for starters. If someone is blocked without having made an edit, there's a

pretty damn good

chance it was because of their username.

That would involve an expensive query. Simply hiding all indef blocked users is
probably the best option.

The reason I raised the idea is that we then do not have to worry
about hiding edit records, because there will be none. But hiding
all indef blocks is fine with me as well.