From 6ee605a08872e323abf52f190ab1540d5f289c8a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brad Jorsch <bjorsch@wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, 13 May 2016 14:35:41 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Use User::newSystemUser when available

Change-Id: I0be561ff0a28a728451224239e20f243543c311d
---
 cleanup.php | 20 ++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cleanup.php b/cleanup.php
index 224f04ed..8eb23ce1 100644
--- a/cleanup.php
+++ b/cleanup.php
@@ -56,14 +56,18 @@ function cleanupArticle( Revision $rev, $regexes, $match ) {
 //------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 $username = 'Spam cleanup script';
-$wgUser = User::newFromName( $username );
-if ( $wgUser->idForName() == 0 ) {
-	// Create the user
-	$status = $wgUser->addToDatabase();
-	if ( $status === null || $status->isOK() ) {
-		$dbw = wfGetDB( DB_MASTER );
-		$dbw->update( 'user', array( 'user_password' => 'nologin' ),
-			array( 'user_name' => $username ), $username );
+if ( method_exists( 'User', 'newSystemUser' ) ) {
+	$wgUser = User::newSystemUser( $username, array( 'steal' => true ) );
+} else {
+	$wgUser = User::newFromName( $username );
+	if ( $wgUser->idForName() == 0 ) {
+		// Create the user
+		$status = $wgUser->addToDatabase();
+		if ( $status === null || $status->isOK() ) {
+			$dbw = wfGetDB( DB_MASTER );
+			$dbw->update( 'user', array( 'user_password' => 'nologin' ),
+				array( 'user_name' => $username ), $username );
+		}
 	}
 }