Hello,
I lasted logged in to the English Wikipedia a few months ago, today when I try to logon it gives an error "The password you entered is incorrect. Please try again.". As far as I know the username/password I'm giving is correct.
When I attempt to use the "Email new password" option it gives the error "Error sending mail: There is no e-mail address recorded for user "Popsracer"".
This is surprising because as far as I know my email address should be on record. And I was able to successfully do a password reset on 8 June 2003.
Do accounts or passwords time out if not used for a certain period of time? If at all possible I would like to keep my existing account but there doesn't seem to be anyway I can get into it. Do I have any recourse other then creating a new account and starting over?
Richard Gallagher (User:Popsracer)
On Apr 3, 2005 1:48 PM, Richard Gallagher richie.gallagher@gmail.com wrote:
Do accounts or passwords time out if not used for a certain period of time?
No. The only accounts that disappeared were the very early ones before MediaWiki was used.
If at all possible I would like to keep my existing account but there doesn't seem to be anyway I can get into it. Do I have any recourse other then creating a new account and starting over?
If you can prove you really are Popsracer to the satisfaction of a developer, you could ask for them to replace your email address in your account so you can reset your password, at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Non-development_tasks_for_developers
Angela.