// Deletions will be made by $user temporarly added to the bot group
// in order to hide it in RecentChanges.
- $user = User::newFromName( 'MediaWiki default' );
+ $user = User::newSystemUser( 'MediaWiki default', [ 'steal' => true ] );
if ( !$user ) {
$this->fatalError( "Invalid username" );
}