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Alexis Moinet wrote:
my main account is on fr.wp (let's call it A), I've the same account A on mediawiki.org
unfortunatelly, test.wikipedia.org tells me that my home account is on sv.wp
so I checked and indeed there is someone with account A on sv.wp which has ten times more edit than me (I've around 700 and he has several thousands) and which registered a few months earlier than me (back in 2004).
Well, if I understand correctly, I'm going to loose my account A on fr.wp and mediawiki.org in a few weeks.
Sorry to hear that. :(
That's not a problem at all, I'm fine with that ;-)
And at least now you know. :)
Last thing : I also have an other account B on fr.wp that I've used only once for now (1 contribution on the user page).
Here is my question :
Is it possible that instead of proposing me to change my user name, the SUL system proposes me to "transfer" my A contributions to another acount (there I would specify B) and then to SUL-merge my account B ? I'm pretty sure this is technically possible, but is it something you "could plan" or "have the right" to do ? (please :-) )
Basically how this would work would be to rename all your A accounts to B, then do the global merge under the B name.
At the moment that's not all integrated, but you could get your existing A accounts renamed to B now through the existing bureaucrat-run Special:RenameUser system. In theory there should be request queue pages somewhere...
On en.wikipedia it's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Changing_username there are some links there to other languages.
- -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)