On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Erwin <erwin(a)wikipedia.be> wrote:
On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 00:32 +1100, Tim Starling
wrote:
Thomas Dalton wrote:
Aren't accounts with no edits meant to be
automatically usurped?
That was disabled. (..) Doing it properly was looking
complicated, so it's disabled for now.
Does that mean that you have to register and usurp those accounts
locally for each wiki?
You don't have to register. In fact, doing so is entirely pointless
at least after you unify your account. Get a local bureaucrat to do
the rename, and once the local account is out of the way, the name is
reserved for you whenever you want it.
How should we deal with user name conflicts? I'm
asking this both as a
bureaucrat and as a user who whants to usurp existing accounts.
The current best practice appears to be:
* Do not unify the account if you have accounts on some wikis that
aren't named the same as the primary name you'll choose. Usurp all
accounts you want to usurp, *then* unify your account.
* If you do get unified while you still want to usurp some accounts,
you may as well get the usurpees renamed out of the way now.
Bureaucrats will not be able (yet) to rename your local account to
your global name. Once the way is cleared, do not log into the wiki
under your unified name -- use your old account with a different name.
(Logging in under your unified name will create a new local account
that will later have to be discarded.)
This is subject to change as things are fixed and adjusted.