TL;DR: * 2025-02-10: Wikitech config will be changed to only use Wikimedia SUL accounts. * 2025-02-24: Final migration.
As announced back in September 2024, Wikitech is becoming a more normal Wikimedia wiki [0].
On October 1, 2024 we made the necessary configuration changes to detach Wikitech from the LDAP directory that stores Developer account [1] information. Since then a number of users have been able to recover access to their Wikitech accounts and manually connect them to their SUL accounts. There are however a large number of accounts still needing to be converted to SUL.
We had previously planned to make changes at the end of November 2024 and January 2025 to complete the SUL account migration for everyone. As you might guess from the subject of this email we did not complete that plan as hoped.
An updated timeline has been created after an examination of the remaining work. The new timeline is: * 2025-02-10: Wikitech config changed to only use Wikimedia SUL accounts. All legacy local accounts that have been linked to a Wikimedia SUL account via idm.wikimedia.org or toolsadmin.wikimedia.org will be renamed if necessary and then attached to the SUL account. * 2025-02-24: Final migration. SUL account mappings added since the prior migration will be processed. All remaining unattached accounts will be converted to SUL accounts. This final conversion will include renaming any local accounts that match existing SUL accounts to avoid that name collision.
This timeline and more information can be found on Wikitech at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/2024_Migrating_Wikitech_Account_to_SUL.
[0]: https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org/m... [1]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_account
Bryan, on behalf of the Wikitech admins and everyone helping with the migration