On 25/03/2008, Tim Starling tstarling@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?
- d.