[WikiEN-l] Cross-Wiki accounts

[Brian Salter-Duke]

On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 03:26:07PM -0400, Casey Brown wrote:
> Many smaller wikis are cracking down on cross-wiki accounts to stop
> impersonation.  If you create an account on another Wikimedia Project, make
> sure it is linked from your main account.  Otherwise, it may get blocked.
> An easy way to do all this is to create a master list of your accounts at
> Meta and link that page to all your other sites.  This will, hopefully, make
> it harder for you to be impersonated, and easier for your accounts to be
> identified.
>  
> A tool that can be used to identify accounts that aren't yours can be found
> at: http://tools.wikimedia.de/~interiot/cgi-bin/queries/SUL.
>  
> Thanks,
> Casey Brown
> Cbrown1023

What are we supposed to do if we find an account that is not ours? That
tool gave me 11 accounts I do have and one - zh.wikipedia.org, Bduke,
that I certainly do not have as I can understand the language.

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          Brian Salter-Duke            b_duke at bigpond.net.au  
               [[User:Bduke]]  mainly on en:Wikipedia.
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