On Nov 8, 2012 4:04 AM, "Yann Forget" <yannfo(a)gmail.com
<mailto:yannfo@gmail.com>> wrote:
I was admin on the English and French WikiTravel sites.
Is it possible to become admin admin on the English and French
WikiVoyage sites?
I am admin on Wikimedia Commons. I am Yann everywhere.
On 08/11/12 10:29, Chris Steipp wrote:
Hi Yann,
Yes, if you opted-in to having your data shared, your rights will be
transfered as well.
Chris
Not quite... the opt-in was for moving the userlist from the
German-hosted *.wikivoyage.org to the WMF-hosted *.wikivoyage.org only.
Getting from WT to WV in the first place is a different issue.
http://www.wikivoyage.org/general/WMF_Migration/New_policies/Cross-identifi…
Obviously IB is not going to co-operate in any way with matching
accounts, so the most common approach has been for individual editors to
indicate on their old WT userpages (if they can still log in and edit
there) their userid's on other sites - and then immediately self-revert
the information. At that point it's in the edit history so they can go
to a bureaucrat on the new project and say "I'm so-and-so, it says so in
the edit history (here) on the old site" and request whatever status
they had before the move. As far as I know, IB has deliberately broken
"e-mail this user" to prevent it from being used to identify a user
there as the same as a user here.
No idea if there is any restriction on a WT user page saying "BTW, I'm
(so-and-so) on commons:" (not mentioning WT at all) and then claiming
Special:MergeAccount on commons as soon as WV is back up and running.
There's also the question of what to do if IB has blocked some of our
key contributors from editing at all over there - some other means is
needed in these cases to prove ownership of an identity and the
associated CC-BY-SA contributions.