[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia sites not easy to archive (Was Re: Knol is closing tomorrow )

[James Alexander]

If both are accessible I've seen an extension that allowed you to claim
your username. Saw it in action when Wowpedia forked from the Wikia Wowwiki
and they let people claim their old usernames with an edit (and code in
edit summary iirc) on the other wiki.

James

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 10:03 PM, K. Peachey <p858snake at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 1:14 PM, John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote:
> > How would we regain control of our existing usernames in the event
> > that the user database was lost in the move?
>
> That would be up to the end project to decide, Although ideally they
> shouldn't unless you can prove some how it was you otherwise there is
> possible issues with mis-attribution if someone else managed to regain
> the account.
>
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