Cleaning up user renames
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	• MZMcBride
	Apr 30 2008, 4:21 AM

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It would be nice to have a maintenance script (or scripts) that could clean up some of the mess that has been made by user renames in the past.

In the past, deleted edits were not moved with user renames. A script to move the deleted edits and "re-attribute" them would be swell.

Also, the rename user log is screwed up on en.wiki (excerpt):

23:02, 7 June 2006 Essjay (Talk | contribs | block) has renamed Special:Renameuser to "$2" ‎ (Renamed the user "Pikachunoctowlmudkip" (which had 75 edits) to "XD375")

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Reference: bz13889

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 10:07 PM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-User-rename.

• bzimport set Reference to bz13889.

• MZMcBride created this task.Apr 30 2008, 4:21 AM

Domain: MediaWiki/maintenance scripts -> MediaWiki extensions/Renameuser

Assigned to maintainer (Aaron)

The log could be fixed I suppose

Done in r39596.

There is no clean way to fix up actual old renames though, I'd rather let those be rather than log scrapping or something ugly.

mike.lifeguard+bugs wrote:

*** Bug 13013 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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