Hiram Clawson wrote:
Good Afternoon MediaWiki Fans:
I'm finding many users are creating multiple accounts because
they can not remember either their password or have forgotten
their user name. Is there a way to enable a user to get
their user name from the system if they know their email address ?
I don't immediately see that possibility on the "reset password"
login business.
--Hiram
MediaWiki doesn't provide such option. Since emails are considered
private information, information such as "someone with this email is
registered here" is not disclosed.*
Given that the account list is public, they could browse the user list
(Special:ListUsers) looking for their name, or the account creation log
(Special:Log, account creation log). The latter allows them to search
based on the approximate date on which they created the account, while
the first one is better if they know an approximation of the account
name (eg. how it begins).
All of these requires the user to be able to identify the username they
chose, when shown in a list.
Finally, they can also look in their own inbox for the welcome email the
wiki would have sent them, in which the username is also listed.
* Your email address may be shown to the recipient after you send an
email to another user inside the wiki.