[16:38:29] <addshore>	 does mediawiki actaully provide any deletion services to nicely delete things in db rows?
[16:38:41] <addshore>	 like, delete all things associated with a user?
[16:44:30] <Pchelolo>	 addshore: this is something that I've been debating doing. Translate extension does that - deletes users, but that one use-case didn't seem to be enough to add proper machinery in core
[16:44:41] <Pchelolo>	 but if there's 2 use-cases, that's a different story
[17:05:50] <addshore>	 So I'm looking at a pile of mediawiki sites being spammed, and want to write something that across all sites deletes a user with username X, but also everything attached to said user
[17:06:13] <addshore>	 if it could go in core, i'd give it a go in core? otherwise just start writing some extension
[17:06:41] <addshore>	 wtf does the Translate extension do? why does it need to delete users? :O
[17:07:59] <legoktm>	 it has this "sandbox" functionality, AIUI you make a few translations, if they're good you get approved and are a full user, if not, your account is...deleted. (the deletion part is new to me, I thought it would just be blocked)
[17:09:30] <majavah>	 ... why is that in Translate itself.
[17:12:23] <Reedy>	 because getting it merged into core is probably harder? :P
[17:12:35] <bd808>	 because when you work in a extension and your product manager says "make it do X" you probably hack that into the extension you work on
[17:15:07] <addshore>	 on a different topic, i want to make an extension called SunflowerOil, not sure what it will do yet, but i like the name
[17:15:54] <Reedy>	 Contains parts of various ground up MediaWiki installs?
[17:16:19] <addshore>	 contains group up Reedy to make MediaWiki go faster
[17:57:41] <majavah>	 i'm still waiting for the OnionsPorFavor extension, the repository exists but is empty and I have no clue what it is about
[17:59:12] <RhinosF1>	 majavah: what?
[17:59:29] <RhinosF1>	 I hate onions though, I won't be waiting for them
[17:59:45] <majavah>	 lego requested that repo last year or something, it sounds cool but no idea what it it
[18:00:28] <legoktm>	 it was for https://blog.torproject.org/more-onions-porfavor, I just haven't gotten the chance to work on it
[18:20:13] <tgr>	 addshore: I think the common approach is to use UserMerge and merge spammers into some dedicated trash account.
[18:20:34] <tgr>	 There's a hook for user merge that extensions are supposed to implement, and many do.
[18:21:29] <tgr>	 It was even used in Wikimedia production at one time, although that was before the actor migration so not sure how well it's supported these days.
[18:29:39] <tgr>	 for conveniently deleting edits on top of that, some people use BlockAndNuke