David Richfield, 30/04/2013 10:50:
James answered this in his original email:
No, that doesn't answer (see also talk page).
Nemo
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be globally unique - therefore it will be withdrawn from bureaucrats' tool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
<magnusman...@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
<jforres...@wikimedia.org>wrote:
On 29 April 2013 20:59, Fae <fae...@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.
jforres...@wikimedia.org | @jdforrester
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