That was a nice, fast turnaround. Ævar, you rock...
For people who think that it's impossible to interact with devs, here is a fine counterexample (which I like to think is the norm). My experience : someone asked me to implement a name change two weeks ago. The pages for this on meta and en had gone untouched by admins since last October; a big red "we're not doing this any more, pleaes go home" banner was up on those pages (http://tinyurl.com/9g5th). Despite this, there were a handful of new requests every month on en: (http://tinyurl.com/ajlga), and likewise on meta (http://tinyurl.com/e4cxe).
Brian Drake had submitted a feature request in bugzilla in April, to let every user change his own username, and gotten initially shot down (http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1807)... I mentioned the problem again in #wikimedia-tech on IRC, and suggested this could be made a bureaucrat-only feature to avoid the abuse concerns that showed up in the discussion of the first bug. Ævar immediately said he was interested... he posted his own bugzilla entry the next day (http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2523), and it took just two weeks to implement the patch.
So, if you have a great idea that you want implemented, don't give up.
--SJ
On 7/9/05, Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
For more details, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Changing_username http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Changing_username
Excellent. Clear instructions are priceless.