A tool that can be used to identify accounts that aren't yours can be found at: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/queries/SUL.
Very useful link, thanks! There are 23 User:Tango's on Wikimedia's servers. I think about 5 or 6 of them are me. I was contacted a couple of days ago by an en.wikiquotes admin about an account someone had created there with the same name as me - it wasn't me, so they blocked it. I'd better go through and try my standard passwords against some of those accounts and find out which are me...
Hoi, There are 210 GerardM profiles and some 133 RobotGMwikt profiles. I expect that they are all mine. One of them I created a few moments ago.
It is not feasible for me to check to anyones satisfaction that they are all mine. When people start to block any of these profiles, I will no longer be able to run the bot service that I do.
Thanks, GerardM
On 5/13/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
A tool that can be used to identify accounts that aren't yours can be
found
at: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/queries/SUL.
Very useful link, thanks! There are 23 User:Tango's on Wikimedia's servers. I think about 5 or 6 of them are me. I was contacted a couple of days ago by an en.wikiquotes admin about an account someone had created there with the same name as me - it wasn't me, so they blocked it. I'd better go through and try my standard passwords against some of those accounts and find out which are me...
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On 13/05/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
A tool that can be used to identify accounts that aren't yours can be found at: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/queries/SUL.
Very useful link, thanks! There are 23 User:Tango's on Wikimedia's servers. I think about 5 or 6 of them are me. I was contacted a couple of days ago by an en.wikiquotes admin about an account someone had created there with the same name as me - it wasn't me, so they blocked it. I'd better go through and try my standard passwords against some of those accounts and find out which are me...
It gets even more confusing... There is a Tango on en.wiktionary which appears to be me without me ever signing up to Wiktionary. It has 4 edits, at least the most recent 3 of which appear to be edits I made to Wikipedia that got transwikied to Wiktionary. I didn't even know it was possible to copy the history across like that! Can someone with some experience of transwikiing explain how this works to me? Who's account is it? Is it mine, or is the 4th edit (from May 2004 when I was slightly active, but not very) for which I can't find a mention of it being transwikied from someone that created the account, made one edit and left, and then got given my edits by mistake when the other 3 articles were transwikied? I am very confused, and slightly concerned that there may be some GDFL violations involved with transwikiing...
Thomas: that occurred due to the [[Special:Import]] function that is enabled on some wikis. See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Import for more information. Try to sing up for that account or login to it, you may be able to do one of them.
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-----Original Message----- From: foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Dalton Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 4:01 PM To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Cross-Wiki accounts
On 13/05/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
A tool that can be used to identify accounts that aren't yours can be
found
at: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/queries/SUL.
Very useful link, thanks! There are 23 User:Tango's on Wikimedia's servers. I think about 5 or 6 of them are me. I was contacted a couple of days ago by an en.wikiquotes admin about an account someone had created there with the same name as me - it wasn't me, so they blocked it. I'd better go through and try my standard passwords against some of those accounts and find out which are me...
It gets even more confusing... There is a Tango on en.wiktionary which appears to be me without me ever signing up to Wiktionary. It has 4 edits, at least the most recent 3 of which appear to be edits I made to Wikipedia that got transwikied to Wiktionary. I didn't even know it was possible to copy the history across like that! Can someone with some experience of transwikiing explain how this works to me? Who's account is it? Is it mine, or is the 4th edit (from May 2004 when I was slightly active, but not very) for which I can't find a mention of it being transwikied from someone that created the account, made one edit and left, and then got given my edits by mistake when the other 3 articles were transwikied? I am very confused, and slightly concerned that there may be some GDFL violations involved with transwikiing...
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...Which would motivate that all user names in the history of a transwikied article really should be given a suitable iw prefix, as in [[w:en:User:Foo]] if transwikied from en:wp...
\Mike
--- Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
On 13/05/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
A tool that can be used to identify
accounts that aren't yours can be found
at:
http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/queries/SUL.
Very useful link, thanks! There are 23
User:Tango's on Wikimedia's
servers. I think about 5 or 6 of them are me.
I was contacted a couple
of days ago by an en.wikiquotes admin about
an account someone had
created there with the same name as me - it
wasn't me, so they blocked
it. I'd better go through and try my standard
passwords against some
of those accounts and find out which are
me...
It gets even more confusing... There is a Tango on en.wiktionary which appears to be me without me ever signing up to Wiktionary. It has 4 edits, at least the most recent 3 of which appear to be edits I made to Wikipedia that got transwikied to Wiktionary. I didn't even know it was possible to copy the history across like that! Can someone with some experience of transwikiing explain how this works to me? Who's account is it? Is it mine, or is the 4th edit (from May 2004 when I was slightly active, but not very) for which I can't find a mention of it being transwikied from someone that created the account, made one edit and left, and then got given my edits by mistake when the other 3 articles were transwikied? I am very confused, and slightly concerned that there may be some GDFL violations involved with transwikiing...
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Hello,
On 5/14/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
A tool that can be used to identify accounts that aren't yours can be found at: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/queries/SUL.
Very useful link, thanks! There are 23 User:Tango's on Wikimedia's servers. I think about 5 or 6 of them are me. I was contacted a couple of days ago by an en.wikiquotes admin about an account someone had created there with the same name as me.
That was me who informed you that (and sorry for Tango@enwikiquote, for any inconvenience). Since we En Wikiquote as well other middle sized projects have suffered fake information and requests by impostor(s), we have been very cautious for possible sign of disruptions. Perhaps we may have too alarming ... but it is worthy to try to prevent further disruptions.
I know some people think it waste of time, but we needn't I think to let vandals/trolls play with us until it realizes. An authentic username map may help your sister projects' admin teams for a while ;)
Cheers,
- it wasn't me, so they blocked
it. I'd better go through and try my standard passwords against some of those accounts and find out which are me...
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