While we were discussing setting YurikBot bot flag on irc for YurikBot accounts all over wikipedia , someone created a YurikBot account on jawikipedia (according to Yurik, I can not read japanese)
It could OF COURSE just be a unexpected creation, but I fear it was rather done on purpose.
I'd like that a check is run on who did this, and that this person is politely ask to hand out the password to Yurik. Can someone help ?
Thanks
PS : I tried to use the check user, but it seems not to be working.
Anthere
Anthere wrote:
While we were discussing setting YurikBot bot flag on irc for YurikBot accounts all over wikipedia , someone created a YurikBot account on jawikipedia (according to Yurik, I can not read japanese)
It could OF COURSE just be a unexpected creation, but I fear it was rather done on purpose.
I'd like that a check is run on who did this, and that this person is politely ask to hand out the password to Yurik. Can someone help ?
Thanks
PS : I tried to use the check user, but it seems not to be working.
Just ask a bureaucrat to rename the account using Special:Renameuser, then you can recreate it with a different password. I don't think there's any need to find out who did it. It's just one of those silly little things that bored kids do sometimes.
-- Tim Starling
Tim Starling a écrit:
Anthere wrote:
While we were discussing setting YurikBot bot flag on irc for YurikBot accounts all over wikipedia , someone created a YurikBot account on jawikipedia (according to Yurik, I can not read japanese)
It could OF COURSE just be a unexpected creation, but I fear it was rather done on purpose.
I'd like that a check is run on who did this, and that this person is politely ask to hand out the password to Yurik. Can someone help ?
Thanks
PS : I tried to use the check user, but it seems not to be working.
Just ask a bureaucrat to rename the account using Special:Renameuser, then you can recreate it with a different password. I don't think there's any need to find out who did it. It's just one of those silly little things that bored kids do sometimes.
-- Tim Starling
Interesting... You mean a bureaucrat can actually anytime directly take any existing account, move it to another account, and reattribute it to anyone else ? Or any one take it without any more thought ? Are not you a bit worried that this feature could not be a bit abused, in particular in the perspective of the still wished for (but less and less expected) single login feature ?
Was each project informed on this ? Do you know if some projects developped rules about such a feature use ? Imho, there is a big difference between renaming an account, and renaming and freeing the old account. For example, it is not possible for someone to take a yahoo email account, or to be assigned a phone number before at least a certain time span.
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Anthere wrote:
Tim Starling a écrit:
Anthere wrote:
While we were discussing setting YurikBot bot flag on irc for YurikBot accounts all over wikipedia , someone created a YurikBot account on jawikipedia (according to Yurik, I can not read japanese)
It could OF COURSE just be a unexpected creation, but I fear it was rather done on purpose.
I'd like that a check is run on who did this, and that this person is politely ask to hand out the password to Yurik. Can someone help ?
Thanks
PS : I tried to use the check user, but it seems not to be working.
Just ask a bureaucrat to rename the account using Special:Renameuser, then you can recreate it with a different password. I don't think there's any need to find out who did it. It's just one of those silly little things that bored kids do sometimes.
-- Tim Starling
Interesting... You mean a bureaucrat can actually anytime directly take any existing account, move it to another account, and reattribute it to anyone else ? Or any one take it without any more thought ? Are not you a bit worried that this feature could not be a bit abused, in particular in the perspective of the still wished for (but less and less expected) single login feature ?
Was each project informed on this ? Do you know if some projects developped rules about such a feature use ? Imho, there is a big difference between renaming an account, and renaming and freeing the old account. For example, it is not possible for someone to take a yahoo email account, or to be assigned a phone number before at least a certain time span.
Developers have been doing account renames for years, to deal with situations such as impersonation of a well-known user on a smaller wiki. We've done so without the benefit of policy, we've simply had to use our discretion. I think the situation is better now, at least bureaucrats can be held accountable to the community (or to the Board) by revoking their powers if necessary. Renames are logged, so I don't see any great potential for abuse.
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On 7/31/05, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
You mean a bureaucrat can actually anytime directly take any existing account, move it to another account, and reattribute it to anyone else ?
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Was each project informed on this ?
Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, and Wikinews were informed of it. Wikiquote and Wikisource don't have mailing lists, and I forgot about the Commons (sorry). The help pages about changing username were updated on meta, so hopefully even those not on mailing lists would have some knowledge about the feature. This is going on the assumption that members of those lists will translate the information there are disseminate that within their own language projects.
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2005-July/040905.html
Do you know if some projects developped rules about such a feature use ?
I'm not aware of any such rules. On the English Wikipedia, it's currently a judgement call of the few bureaucrats who are doing this task. Until a problem arises, there isn't much call for a policy, which is probably why the Steward policies still had the "draft" tag on them until March of this year. :)
Angela.
Angela a écrit:
On 7/31/05, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
You mean a bureaucrat can actually anytime directly take any existing account, move it to another account, and reattribute it to anyone else ?
[...]
Was each project informed on this ?
Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, and Wikinews were informed of it. Wikiquote and Wikisource don't have mailing lists, and I forgot about the Commons (sorry). The help pages about changing username were updated on meta, so hopefully even those not on mailing lists would have some knowledge about the feature. This is going on the assumption that members of those lists will translate the information there are disseminate that within their own language projects.
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2005-July/040905.html
Do you know if some projects developped rules about such a feature use ?
I'm not aware of any such rules. On the English Wikipedia, it's currently a judgement call of the few bureaucrats who are doing this task. Until a problem arises, there isn't much call for a policy, which is probably why the Steward policies still had the "draft" tag on them until March of this year. :)
Angela.
Hmmm, it is good to know projects were informed. Though I was aware it was possible for bureaucrat to rename accounts, I thought the old account was not freed... I am not sure everyone realised. Well, if everyone is happy with this... good.
Concerning the CheckUser feature, when I tried to use it, I could not. Is it me not understanding how it works, or is it possibly not working right now ?
In any cases, should not we update entirely this portion of the privacy policy (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Privacy_policy#Policy_on_release_of_data_deri...) to stick to new features and practices ? Or update practices to stick to policies ?
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