On Nov 8, 2012 4:04 AM, "Yann Forget" <yannfo@gmail.com> wrote:

I was admin on the English and French WikiTravel sites.
Is it possible to become admin admin on the English and French WikiVoyage sites?
I am admin on Wikimedia Commons. I am Yann everywhere.

On 08/11/12 10:29, Chris Steipp wrote:

Hi Yann,

Yes, if you opted-in to having your data shared, your rights will be transfered as well.

Chris

Not quite... the opt-in was for moving the userlist from the German-hosted *.wikivoyage.org to the WMF-hosted *.wikivoyage.org only.

Getting from WT to WV in the first place is a different issue.

http://www.wikivoyage.org/general/WMF_Migration/New_policies/Cross-identification_of_accounts

Obviously IB is not going to co-operate in any way with matching accounts, so the most common approach has been for individual editors to indicate on their old WT userpages (if they can still log in and edit there) their userid's on other sites - and then immediately self-revert the information. At that point it's in the edit history so they can go to a bureaucrat on the new project and say "I'm so-and-so, it says so in the edit history (here) on the old site" and request whatever status they had before the move. As far as I know, IB has deliberately broken "e-mail this user" to prevent it from being used to identify a user there as the same as a user here.

No idea if there is any restriction on a WT user page saying "BTW, I'm (so-and-so) on commons:" (not mentioning WT at all) and then claiming Special:MergeAccount on commons as soon as WV is back up and running. There's also the question of what to do if IB has blocked some of our key contributors from editing at all over there - some other means is needed in these cases to prove ownership of an identity and the associated CC-BY-SA contributions.