Anon Sricharoenchai wrote:
Hi,
1. Why still we let the SUL to auto select the homewiki in Special:MergeAccount?
The "home wiki" is a concept used by SUL to improve the chances that the
most active user of an account name will obtain the global account for
that name. If the passwords don't match, only the user who has access to
the home wiki will be allowed to merge.
After merge, the home wiki has no significance and is not displayed
publically.
2. Why not we let the wiki that do
Special:MergeAccount as homewiki?
Example,
Assuming that it has user test123@testwiki (1000 edit counts) and
test123@lowikibooks (500 edit counts)
* If test123 do merge account at,
http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MergeAccount, then testwiki
will be homewiki.
* If test123 do merge account at,
http://lo.wikibooks.org/wiki/Special:MergeAccount, then lowikibooks
will be homewiki.
We don't do this because it would defeat the purpose of having a home wiki.
3. Why not prohibit creation of existing account that
have not yet
been merged on any wikis?
Example,
1. Before SUL, if have test123 created on
http://lo.wikipedia.org
2. test123@lowiki has not been merged on any wikis.
3. After SUL, should immediately prohibit the creation of test123
account on any WM wikis. (even that test123 has not yet been merged
to SUL)
This is already the case, but we have had some reports that this
protection sporadically stops working. If this is true, it should be fixed
soon.
4. Considering the following situation,
1. Mr.A own "user123" at,
* testwiki,meta,common,mediawiki: 100,500,500,500 edits count
* enwikipedia,enwikibooks,enwikitionary,enwikisource,enwikinews:
100,100,100,100,100 edits count
* lowikipedia,lowikibooks,lowiktionary,lowikisource,lowikinews:
500,100,100,100,100 edits count
* totally, Mr.A has 3000 edits count
2. Mr.B own "user123" only at frwikipedia with 2000 edits count
3. When Mr.A use user123 on lowikipedia, and do
http://lowikipedia/Special:MergeAccount, what will be the homewiki of
user123?
4. Mr.A can successfully merge account?
5. If homewiki determined by the system is user123@frwikipedia,
then what thing Mr.A could do to get his accounts merged?
The best idea is for Mr.A and Mr.B to have a friendly chat with each other
about who they think should get the global account. Then, depending on the
results of that conversation, either Mr.A can rename his many accounts to
some new, unique username; or Mr.B can rename his fr.wikipedia account and
Mr.A can get the global name.
-- Tim Starling