[Wikimedia-l] Single User Login finalisation: some accounts will be renamed

[Marco Chiesa]

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 4:29 AM, James Forrester
<jforrester a wikimedia.org>wrote:

>
> Unfortunately, some accounts are currently not unique across all our
> wikis, but instead clash with other users who have the same account
> name. To make sure that all of these users can use Wikimedia's wikis
> in future, we will be renaming a number of accounts to have "~” and
> the name of their wiki added to the end of their accounts' name. This
> change will take place on or around 27 May. For example, a user called
> “Example” on the Swedish Wiktionary who will be renamed would become
> “Example~svwiktionary”.
>
>
Why did you choose to insert the character  "~"? Many keyboards do not have
such a key.
Cruccone