I would not want to display the actions performed.
- Either hide them from the public
- Or, preferably, be able to delete them by myself.
How to do ?
Can I empty such information from the database?
Where are the information stored?
The Merge and Delete User information is always displayed from Spécial:Journal/usermerge
The same from Spécial:Modifications_récentes
You can suppress the contents of those logs (the log will be there, but the information not visible to others) if you have the deletelogentry permission (see Manual:User_rights#List_of_permissions)
A better approach is to add that log to Manual:$wgFilterLogTypes, which would hide them from Special:RecentChanges and Special:Log (unless specifically requested to be shown).
If you don't want them to be visible even when explicitly requested, add it to Manual:$wgLogRestrictions.
I do not know either of them. I watch.
We do not hesitate to complete here a little information.
To be able to manage the deletion, or, to hide the logs totally, would be a plus for this UserMerge extension.
Thank you for participating in the discussion so quickly.
I had already tested Logrestriction but I was not able to get what I wanted, to properly hide UserMerge logs, to non-connected users and to single users.
Test 1 # KO
An intermediate solution would be to disable the extension once the merges and deletions have been made.
If the extension is disabled, "log-name-usermerge" is displayed instead of "User Account Merge Log".
A single line will then be displayed in the last changes since Mediawiki: "18:25 (⧼log-name-usermerge⧽). [Zer00CooL (46 ×)]"
Even so, the pages I post on another site with an RSS feed continue to serve the information, a line for each profile that has been merge and deleted.
Disabling the extension is therefore useless. I leave the extension enabled.
Test 2 # KO
# Do not display the UserMerge logs.
$ wgLogRestrictions = ['usermerge' => 'bureaucrat'];
# Bug 1
# Works in part since Special: Journal
The logs are not displayed.
The logs are not displayed either with my connected bureaucrat user.
# Bug 2
# Error from Special page: Journal / usermerge
You can not ⧼action-bureaucrat⧽, for the following reason:
You do not have sufficient rights to perform the requested action.
Test 3 # KO
Another alternative would be to use Lockdown but still it does not seem to work.
I am not on options to indicate, I try "usermerge" to forbid to "user" but the users always have access to the information of journaling, in particular, on "Latest modifications".
I found how to hide all the "last changes" but this is not the purpose of hiding all the changes, only the merge and deletion of user account.
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I may not use the right configurations, I do not know how to move on now.
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# TODO
I would then search the database for "deleted the user account" or "log-name-usermerge" or "usermerge".
See if it is possible to delete these kind of entries directly from the database.
# I think it would have been better to use the CleanMediawiki.sh script to delete users. I did not test it. https://github.com/ZerooCool/cleanmediawiki
My research in French on UserMerge :
OK with this adds to the LocalSettings.php
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['deletelogentry'] = true;
$wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['deleterevision'] = true;
https://wiki.visionduweb.fr/index.php?title=Sp%C3%A9cial:Journal/usermerge
The RevisionDelete extension allowed me to replace the UserMerge logging information with neutral information. I would have preferred to delete UserMerge's logging information but the RevisionDelete extension still looks interesting. The history is preserved. The irrelevant information is neutralized.
I guess I can rely on the CleanMediawiki.sh script to learn more about how to clean mediawiki by going through this script.
Nevertheless, the issue remains open if anyone can explain to me with an example adapted to UserMerge, how to delete ALL the logging data of UserMerge.