Jimmy Wales wrote:
I think we should do this ASAP, because the issues are only going to get harder. But the main issue, Timwi, is social -- there are certainly cases where two different people have the same username but in different languages.
I have already suggested a solution for this some time ago. I'll repeat it here because I feel like it ;-)
The basic idea is to mark all accounts as "old" (and make them unloginnable), and require everybody to create a new account. Then allow users to merge their old contribution-lists into this new account provided they know the password to the old account.
So, for example, I would then create a "new" account named "Timwi" and then merge "old:en:Timwi", "old:de:Timwi", "old:fr:Timwi", etc. into it.
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