Thank you so much Brian. Your first suggestion solved the problem. It was enough to add the following line in LocalSettings.php
// Add just one user name to the default array $wgReservedUsernames[] = 'Anonymous'; to get this: Merge from Giada (691) to Anonymous (0) is complete. Giada (691) has been deleted. --------- Valerio Pelliccioni W: https://tunearch.org/wiki/User:Valerio_Pelliccioni On 07/01/2020, 20:47, "MediaWiki-l on behalf of Brian Wolff" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: 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 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > MediaWiki-l mailing list > > To unsubscribe, go to: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
