On 5/29/08, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
Anon Sricharoenchai wrote:
- Considering the following situation,
- Mr.A own "user123" at,
- testwiki,meta,common,mediawiki: 100,500,500,500 edits count
- enwikipedia,enwikibooks,enwikitionary,enwikisource,enwikinews:
100,100,100,100,100 edits count * lowikipedia,lowikibooks,lowiktionary,lowikisource,lowikinews: 500,100,100,100,100 edits count * totally, Mr.A has 3000 edits count 2. Mr.B own "user123" only at frwikipedia with 2000 edits count 3. When Mr.A use user123 on lowikipedia, and do http://lowikipedia/Special:MergeAccount, what will be the homewiki of user123? 4. Mr.A can successfully merge account? 5. If homewiki determined by the system is user123@frwikipedia, then what thing Mr.A could do to get his accounts merged?
The best idea is for Mr.A and Mr.B to have a friendly chat with each other about who they think should get the global account. Then, depending on the results of that conversation, either Mr.A can rename his many accounts to some new, unique username; or Mr.B can rename his fr.wikipedia account and Mr.A can get the global name.
- What if Mr.B don't want to negotiate with Mr.A?
I think you should cross that bridge when you come to it.
- What if Mr.A only speak lo, while Mr.B only speak fr?
Maybe you can find someone willing to interpret for you.
- If Mr.A and Mr.B have friendly chat, and end up with,
- Mr.B willing to let Mr.A get global account of user123, since
Mr.A really want to use many wikis than Mr.B
- Mr.B willing to continue using his local user123 account (by not
changing account name)
- Mr.A also willing to let Mr.B continue to use local user123
account (by not changing Mr.B account name).
- How can Mr.A and Mr.B do, to meet this?
Easy, Mr.A and Mr.B should both become MediaWiki developers, and write the relevant code by pair-programming.
You mean the patch are welcome? Well, I have just written the patch, that give privilege to group 'mergeaccount', in my previous email.