But still, even for totally *unused* accounts, I think a year might be a
better milestone. Sometimes, it takes people a while to "look around"
and think about how they contribute and what they want to do.
I agree with those saying 100 days is too short.
Just one more point on this.. the "default" for removing unused accounts
with *zero* edits of any kind is 10 days, not 100 or more.
I can set this to whatever everyone agrees to. I picked/suggested 100
as a number that was considerably greater than the default.
Just to be certain, I am assuming here that MediaWiki does not store
'last login date' for an account -
else, I would change definition of a 'not used' account to one that has
not had login activity either.
I will ask the MediaWiki guys. If there is a last login date that we
can also query on (and I assume there is), then I would suggest that we
adjust it to a smaller value, not extend it to one year. ie... unused
account (an account with zero edits) that has not been logged into in 90
days should be removed.
Removal after one year seems reasonable then.
A good solution IMO would include the earlier idea regarding a
notification message.
Perhaps a monthly script that sends one email to an account holder,
whose account would be subject to removal, say, 90 days hence, waring of
the action.
If at the end of those 90 days there has been no login to the wiki -
remove the account and send an email informing them of the action.
We can look at this kind of scripting/cron job after the MW1.15 upgrade.
C.
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Clayton Cornell [email protected]
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StarOffice - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Hamburg, Germany
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