Such users can still exist, they can't just be a valid name. Adding it to
$wgReservedUsernames might be enough to allow it as an anon (not sure). At
the very least, having something like  '<Anonymous>' would be fine, since <
isn't allowed in real usernames.

--
Brian

On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 7:39 PM Valerio Pelliccioni <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks Brian.
> I run the suggested scripts but didn't solve the problem.
> I need a user "Anonymous".
>
> >> Usernames that are valid usernames are no longer allowed to have id 0
> ...this means that UserMerge Extension is no longer available for user
> deletion; isn't it?
>
> V
>
>
> Valerio Pelliccioni
> W: https://tunearch.org/wiki/User:Valerio_Pelliccioni
>
>
> On 07/01/2020, 20:15, "MediaWiki-l on behalf of Brian Wolff" <
> [email protected] on behalf of [email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>     Run cleanupUsersWithNoId.php followed by migrateActors.php --force
>
>
>     Usernames that are valid usernames are no longer allowed to have id 0.
>
>     --
>     Brian
>
>     On Tuesday, January 7, 2020, Valerio Pelliccioni <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>     > Hi, everybody,
>     >
>     > I seem to have lost the user "Anonymous" which is the one with the
> user_id
>     > = 0.
>     >
>     > I say this because trying to delete a user with the extension
> "UserMerge"
>     > I got this error:
>     >
>     > "Cannot create an actor for a usable name that is not an existing
> user".
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > To be clear, the UserMerge Extension instructs to
>     > merge (refer contributions, texts, watchlists, edit count of) a first
>     > account A to a second account B
>     > delete the first account A after the merge
>     > ….
>     > if you omit the "New User" field (account B) then the extension
>     > auto-populates the New User as "Anonymous", and ask you to confirm a
> merge
>     > to Anonymous
>     >
>     >
>     > So I went to check the "user" and "actor" tables where, actually, the
>     > Anonymous user doesn't exist.
>     >
>     > Is it serious?
>     >
>     > Everything else seems to be working fine to me...
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > Valerio Pelliccioni
>     >
>     > W: https://tunearch.org/wiki/User:Valerio_Pelliccioni
>     >
>     >
>     >
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