Brion Vibber wrote:
- You can't rename a global account.
We'll definitely be wanting that in the long run. Need to be clear about permissions, though...
What may be best for most cases is likely to allow people to rename their own accounts cleanly. The simplest, from a user and anti-vandalism point of view, would be to make it easy to link a new name to your existing account; you could then go by the new name, but retain your credentials, history, edit count etc while keeping the visible link to the old name for public tracking purposes.
Something to consider, anyway.
It's more urgent to enable renaming *to* a global account. Everybody started today noticing they have collisions and wanting to usurp for different accounts. However, once the global account is created there's no way to merge the one with a different name as the CentralAuth renaming is not active.