[WikiEN-l] Cross-Wiki accounts

[Brian Salter-Duke]

On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 09:36:15PM -0400, Casey Brown wrote:
> The account has no edits, so you can ask the local bureaucrats or stewards
> to re-assing the username and give it to you (usurp).  In the case of SUL,
> the account would definitely be re-assigned to you.

I should have said that I did NOT understand the language. This is the
chinese wikipedia, right? I do not understand chinese so I can not ask
their crats to do that. I also do not want the accunt. Is it a problem
if I just forget about it? Thanks for your help.

Brian.
  
> Casey Brown
> Cbrown1023
>  
> Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 08:47:45 +1000
> From: Brian Salter-Duke <b_duke at bigpond.net.au>
> To: wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Cross-Wiki accounts
> To: wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org
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> 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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