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

[Andrew Gray]

On 30 April 2013 03:29, James Forrester <jforrester at 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”.

I was wondering if this would ever finally happen!

One ide-effect of centralised renaming: a lot less work for individual
projects and a lot less confusion over where and how names can be
used/usurped, in which order, etc...

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk