On 5/14/07, Brian Salter-Duke <b_duke(a)bigpond.net.au> wrote: > > 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

> 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 &lt;b_duke(a)bigpond.net.au&gt; > > To: wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Cross-Wiki accounts > > To: wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > Message-ID: <20070513224745.GC3348@SALTERDUKE2> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > > On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 03:26:07PM -0400, Casey Brown wrote: > > > Many smaller wikis are cracking down on cross-wiki accounts to

> > > impersonation. If you create an account on another Wikimedia

> > > make sure it is linked from your main account. Otherwise, it may

> > blocked. > > > An easy way to do all this is to create a master list of your

> > > at Meta and link that page to all your other sites. This will, > > > hopefully, make it harder for you to be impersonated, and easier

> > > your accounts to be identified. > > > > > > A tool that can be used to identify accounts that aren't yours can

> > > 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?

> tool > > gave me 11 accounts I do have and one - zh.wikipedia.org, Bduke,

What if it means something else in Chinese? If you don't want it, why

it up? It's not a real obscure combination of sounds for a language as

as Chinese.

My given name is unusual in English, but very common in another

wound up with a more obscure account name, when I was willing to use my

name, simply because I could not find a variation of my real name due

ton of users of a non-English Wikipedia having variations on my given

as their account name, and these users also editing en.Wiki now and

KP

Hang about. I was shown a tool that can be used to check accounts on other wikis. I used it and found all the ones I expected plus one other. I just asked what to do about it. I was then told it had no edits and would be assigned to me under SUL. I do not want it, but also do not want people to think it is my account if it gets used. If SUL gives it to me, how would I get rid of it? I'm just being security minded in the same way as I improved my passwd last week.

OK, I understand. I was not clear that this was how SUL is going to work. I thought that SUL meant that I would not have an account on all wikis, but that when I created one on a new wiki, it would automatically give me the single user name and passwd. It does seem rather excessive for every user on the en wikipedia to have an account on every small wiki. Is is not a burden on the small wiki's servers?