That looks about right. (how it happened)
Cheers,
Peter
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From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Felipe
Schenone
Sent: Wednesday, 15 March 2017 9:44 PM
To: Wikimedia Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] WikiJournal project
Awesome advice Brad, I can't think of a better solution than that, thanks!
On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 12:26 PM Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <bjorsch(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 10:45 PM, Felipe Schenone
<schenonef(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
If we migrate the content we currently have (on
Meta and
Wikiversity) to
wikijournal.org, and the project grows, and
eventually gets accepted as a sister-project (as we hope), how will
we merge the user accounts? Should we not worry about it, and we'll
figure it out when the time comes? Or should we totally worry about
it, and adopt some strategy about it now? What's your advice on this
issue?
Note: This post is my personal view and in no way represents any
official WMF position.
My personal guess is that it would wind up being done something like
how accounts on WikiVoyage were handled: people who used the same
username on both WikiVoyage and Wikimedia wikis were able to merge
those accounts, people whose usernames weren't already in use on
Wikimedia wikis were able to claim those names, and other people had
to be renamed. Or at least it seems that's what was done based on the
plan document on mediawiki.org[1] and the process page on
en.wikivoyage.org.[2]
To reduce the number of people who would need renaming should the time
come, you might start using an extension like OAuthAuthentication[3]
to authenticate against Meta, and disable any further local account creations.
[1]:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikivoyage_migration/Accounts
[2]:
https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:User_account_migration
[3]:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OAuthAuthentication
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