The extension is intended to help wiki administrators to keep track of inactive users, send warning emails to such users and then automatically block their account if no action were taken in time.

It's possible to configure number of days since last login to be considered as inactivity, number of days since last login to actually block a user account and setup a schedule for warning messages to be sent prior to blocking.

• MediaWiki 1.35+

• Clone the repository into your extensions folder
• Add wfLoadExtension( 'BlockInactive' ) to the bottom of your LocalSettings.php
• Run php maintenance/update.php --quick
• Configure cron to run BlockInactive/maintenance/blockinactive.php script @daily
  • --delay - parameter allows to specify delay (in seconds) between outgoing emails
  • --dry - parameter runs script in dry mode not performing any email sending or blocks
• Navigate to Special:BlockInactive to see details

• $wgBlockInactiveThreshold (default: 210) - Number of days since the last login to start considering user as inactive and begin sending reminders
• $wgBlockInactiveDaysBlock (default: 270) - Number of days since the last login to actually block the user
• $wgBlockInactiveWarningDaysLeft (default: 30, 5) - Schedule in form of days left before blocking to send warning emails on

• blockinactive-config-mail-subject - Warning email subject
• blockinactive-config-mail-body - Warning email body
• blockinactive-config-mail-block-body - Post-block email subject
• blockinactive-config-mail-block-body - Post-block email body

• blockinactive - allows to view the Special:BlockInactive page, by default is granted to sysop and bureaucrat groups.

The extension adds a special alwaysactive right, users having this right will be fully ignored by the extension. By default, the right is granted to the sysop group.