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

[Magnus Manske]

Will the affected users be given a one-time offer to have their accounts
renamed, or are they stuck forever with the "~" ones?


On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 5:01 AM, James Forrester
<jforrester at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> On 29 April 2013 20:59, Fae <faewik at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks James, personally I'm comforted by your prompt reply.
>
> Happy to help. :-)
>
> > My intuition is that this would be unlikely to affect any accounts
> > with more than 5,000 edits, possibly fewer. I have no doubt that you
> > intend to take special care to help users with significant
> > contributions, such as those with a well established contribution
> > history at this level.
>
> Yes, I'll be personally reviewing the renaming list to make sure we
> can catch any particularly-major issues early.
>
> Yours,
> --
> James D. Forrester
> Product Manager, VisualEditor
> Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
>
> jforrester at wikimedia.org | @jdforrester
>
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