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

[David Richfield]

James answered this in his original email:

> It will now only be possible for accounts to be renamed globally; the RenameUser tool will no longer work on a local basis - since all accounts must be globally unique - therefore it will be withdrawn from bureaucrats' tool sets. It will still be possible for users to ask on Meta for their account to be renamed further, if they do not like their new user name, once this takes place.

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Magnus Manske
<magnusmanske at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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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