On 25/03/2008, Tim Starling
<tstarling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
> I couldn't log into de:wp as myself as
yet.
Click the "Manage your global account"
link in your preferences, or go to
[[Special:MergeAccount]]. Later on, it'll pop up when you try to log in.
OK, I did this from
en.wikipedia.org, and it merged the accounts from
commons.wikimedia.org,
cy.wikipedia.org,
en.wikipedia.org,
en.wikinews.org,
en.wikiquote.org,
www.mediawiki.org and
meta.wikimedia.org - which is indeed the list of places on Wikimedia I
have an account called "David Gerard".
I tried logging into
de.wikipedia.org (where I didn't previously have
an account) as David Gerard with both the passwords I was using,
neither worked.
I then tried *creating* an account on
de.wikipedia.org as David Gerard
with the en:wp password, and got the error "Fehler bei der Anmeldung:
Cannot create account: the requested username is already taken in the
unified login system." (Yes, German then English.)
What should in fact be happening?
.
The error you quoted is not localised yet because I only added it a few
hours ago.
-- Tim Starling