GW2 Wiki English Mirror:Requests for technical administration/Enable temporary accounts
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Enable temporary accounts
- Title
- Enable temporary accounts
- Applicability
- Applies to MW 1.39 onwards, considered stable from MW 1.45.
- Type
- Amendment of LocalSettings.php
- Reason
- Reduce visbility of a user's IP address information + therefore improve privacy.
- It is proposed that the following lines are added to LocalSettings.php (supplementing the default values as defined on mw:Manual:$wgAutoCreateTempUser).
- As discussed with ArenaNet, it is proposed to enable this at the same time as the upcoming MW 1.43 upgrade.
$wgAutoCreateTempUser['enabled'] = true; $wgAutoCreateTempUser['genPattern'] = '~Temporary User $1';
- The first line enables the feature. The second line changes the default "temporary user" from appearing as purely '~2026 123456' (tilde, year, then sequential number per year) and will instead appear as '~Temporary User 2026 123456' (which serves to be a bit more visually obvious to distinguish from named permanent users).
- Links
- mw:Trust and Safety Product/Temporary Accounts
- mw:Trust and Safety Product/Temporary Accounts/For developers
- mw:Manual:$wgAutoCreateTempUser
- Possible pitfalls
- As noted on #Updating AbuseFilter filters, "Conditions that implicitly check for IPs/anonymous users (e.g. via user_age or user_groups) may not work. Instead, use the new user_type variable which can return one of the following: named, temp, ip, external, unknown", this will likely affect one or more of our AbuseFilter configurations.
- The following filters will require updating: 16 (anon userpage), 9 (ip userpage - consider merging with 16 tbh), 37 (anon editor content removal).
- Similarly any wiki custom JS will require a review
- Believe none affected (mw.user)
- For MW 1.43+: Per #Updating AbuseFilter permissions, Bureaucrats may need to check who is allocated the "abusefilter-access-protected-vars" and "abusefilter-protected-vars-log" permissions - data on mw:Extension:AbuseFilter#User rights suggests no action should be required (i.e. all sysops look to be granted these permissions by default) but this is worth checking.
