On 3/12/11 9:03 AM, Casey Brown wrote:
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 7:45 AM, William Allen Simpson william.allen.simpson@gmail.com wrote:
How to fix this?
Have you triedhttp://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Anmelden or http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Anmelden/signup?
No, especially as I don't speak German. And I assumed, perhaps incorrectly, that any attempt to create a new version of my same name would be rejected as centralauth will find the duplicate original name.
It originally seemed to me this was more of an inter-site data sharing issue. Later information from Platonides leads me to think this is a software issue, that leads to an inconsistent database.
How did transwikified edits not point back to the original site and user?
How is some kind of user set up that isn't unifiable, or even findable with the SUL collision detector and MergeAccount tools?
I'm sure I'm unlikely to be the only such instance?
I'll try not to disturb the de variant data for William Allen Simpson, until some nice developer figures out the issue with the database....