When Wikivoyage joined WMF as a fork from Wikitravel they had to deal with the same problem. It should be in the records somewhere. It wasn’t a big deal from memory. I had the same username on both anyway. A few people had to change when there were conflicts, and a few dropped one name as redundant. Cheers, Peter
-----Original Message----- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Felipe Schenone Sent: Wednesday, 15 March 2017 4:45 AM To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimedia-l] WikiJournal project Hi! So there's a sprouting project called WikiJournal <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiJournal_User_Group>, the basic idea of which is to develop an open peer-reviewed academic journal, where we can all publish our research, and also, maybe, permalinks to Wikipedia articles that have been peer-reviewed (featured articles) together with the names of the main author(s), so as to give some well-deserved credit. Anyway, the thing is that recently, we've been talking to the owner of wikijournal.org, a fairly similar project with the perfect domain name, and he has agreed to a merge. So now we're all excited trying to figure out the details of the merge, and there's one particular issue I'd like to ask about. 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? I've been looking around for documentation but the most relevant one <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_project_process> seems to have no advice on this point. Thanks for any input! _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2016.0.7998 / Virus Database: 4756/14115 - Release Date: 03/14/17 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
