On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 09:36:15PM -0400, Casey Brown wrote:
The account has no edits, so you can ask the
local bureaucrats or
stewards
to re-assing the username and give it to you
(usurp). In the case of
SUL,
the account would definitely be re-assigned to
you.
I should have said that I did NOT understand the language. This is the
chinese wikipedia, right? I do not understand chinese so I can not ask
their crats to do that. I also do not want the accunt. Is it a problem
if I just forget about it? Thanks for your help.
Brian.
Casey Brown
Cbrown1023
Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 08:47:45 +1000
From: Brian Salter-Duke <b_duke(a)bigpond.net.au>
To: wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Cross-Wiki accounts
To: wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
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On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 03:26:07PM -0400, Casey Brown wrote:
Many smaller wikis are cracking down on
cross-wiki accounts to stop
impersonation. If you create an account on another Wikimedia Project,
make sure it is linked from your main account. Otherwise, it may get
blocked.
An easy way to do all this is to create a master
list of your accounts
at Meta and link that page to all your other sites. This will,
hopefully, make it harder for you to be impersonated, and easier for
your accounts to be identified.
A tool that can be used to identify accounts that aren't yours can be
found
at:
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/queries/SUL.
Thanks,
Casey Brown
Cbrown1023
What are we supposed to do if we find an account that is not ours? That
tool
gave me 11 accounts I do have and one -
zh.wikipedia.org, Bduke, that I
certainly do not have as I can understand the language.
--
Brian Salter-Duke b_duke(a)bigpond.net.au
[[User:Bduke]] mainly on en:Wikipedia.
Also on fr: Wikipedia, Meta-Wiki and Wikiversity
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Brian Salter-Duke b_duke(a)bigpond.net.au
[[User:Bduke]] mainly on en:Wikipedia.
Also on fr: Wikipedia, Meta-Wiki and Wikiversity
What if it means something else in Chinese? If you don't want it, why bring
it up? It's not a real obscure combination of sounds for a language as big
as Chinese.
My given name is unusual in English, but very common in another language--I
wound up with a more obscure account name, when I was willing to use my real
name, simply because I could not find a variation of my real name due to a
ton of users of a non-English Wikipedia having variations on my given name
as their account name, and these users also editing en.Wiki now and then.
KP