Brion Vibber wrote:
This tool has not been reviewed for security, and in fact a cursory glance does reveal some potential problems. (Additionally we have general concerns about database impact of renaming users with long edit histories.)
It should not have been turned on at this stage and I'm disabling it for now, so an announcement of availability is probably premature. :)
Fixed and re-enabled. Only users with less than 5000 edits may be renamed.
-- Tim Starling
Tim Starling schreef:
Brion Vibber wrote:
This tool has not been reviewed for security, and in fact a cursory glance does reveal some potential problems. (Additionally we have general concerns about database impact of renaming users with long edit histories.)
It should not have been turned on at this stage and I'm disabling it for now, so an announcement of availability is probably premature. :)
Fixed and re-enabled. Only users with less than 5000 edits may be renamed.
-- Tim Starling
That is offcource better then nothing. Is there no solution for the users whit more then 5000+ edits?
Put them in an que and do the renaming when the server load is low?
I have now an long term user on the dutch wikipedia who whould like to change his username so it is the same on all projects. This for the single login thing.
The user "Hooft" has 11.011 contributions, renaming a user with more than 5.000 contributions would adversely affect site performance
Current; [[w:nl:gebruiker:Hooft]]
New; [[w:nl:gebruiker:Rob Hooft]]
Side note; It would be nice if the user page is moved to the new user name when doing the renaming. And that an bureacrat can delete an user account if it is never used for an edit befor.
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