Guild Wars Wiki:Requests for technical administration/CheckUser update

Update for CheckUser

Homepage

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CheckUser

Type

Special page extension

Installation notes

The following line needs to be added to/modified in LocalSettings.php

$wgCUDMaxAge = 12 * 30 * 24 * 3600; // 12 months

Reason for the request

The extension helps to identify users and especially sock accounts to solve conflicts with policies and block evasions. At the current time period of 3 months, not enough data is being retained.

What else uses it

The CheckUser extension is used on a lot different wikis, including the whole WikiMedia farm.