On 30/07/12 07:22, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: > I suppose the change is ok, but some old users with shared usernames > which are not unified will be forced to use a second username when they > currently are not and they're not disturbing each other, because each of > them is active only in a single language. > Old users are mostly inactive nowadays and new users must be preferred > over them, so we can live with it. Will bureaucrats be allowed to rename > users to globally "taken" usernames, as a last resort? > If you need an example consider the username I had on some it projects: > <https://toolserver.org/~pathoschild/stalktoy/?target=Nemo>, mosly > registered before 2006. en, es, pl are still active and pl registered > his last pl account only two months ago. > > Nemo
Yes, it only affects account creation, not renaming. I didn't consider this usecase, but I guess that only allowing to register new ones to the one which could claim the SUL account (after he does) makes sense. I this case you mention, I think the SUL account would belong to eswiki (which seems the same as commons), with ~7500 edits. The it user could have claimed it, but was renamed around the time of SUL implementation. PS: plwiki account has no edits, there's a recent plwikt one, though. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
