James Forrester, 12/05/2013 19:56:
On 12 May 2013 10:40, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
James Forrester, 12/05/2013 19:20:
Sorry for the disruption to everyone's plans. If you have any questions,
please do ask.
Will you still make the lists and send out the notifications so that
people can
: MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com
To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2013 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Single User Login finalisation: some accounts
will be renamed
Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
James Forrester, 12/05/2013 19:56:
On 12 May 2013
On Sat, 3 Aug 2013, MZMcBride wrote:
It needs to be made explicit here and now that this change needs to be
managed _incredibly carefully_ or it will result in very negative
consequences for Wikimedia.
[...]
The process outlined at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SUL_finalisation
is currently
On 03/08/2013 09:41, Chris McKenna wrote:
and should
be sent at 1 year, 6 months, 3 months, 1 month, 2 weeks, 10 days, 5
days, 2 days and 1 day in advance of the renaming, and that is at a
minimum.
Why not ten years, or maybe twenty years just to be on the same side?
/sarcasm
KTC
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Katie
On Sat, 3 Aug 2013, Katie Chan wrote:
On 03/08/2013 09:41, Chris McKenna wrote:
and should
be sent at 1 year, 6 months, 3 months, 1 month, 2 weeks, 10 days, 5
days, 2 days and 1 day in advance of the renaming, and that is at a
minimum.
Why not ten years, or maybe twenty years just to be on
We're in August, so the account unifications may happen any time soon, but
no notifications have been sent to users. Is the plan again to give them
only few days to fix their accounts before they are messed up with?
Nemo
AFAIK, no. I can't speak for the (remaining) staff working on the
James Forrester, 12/05/2013 19:56:
James Forrester, 12/05/2013 19:20:
Sorry for the disruption to everyone's plans. If you have any questions,
please do ask.
Will you still make the lists and send out the notifications so that
people can start planning?
Yes.
Any news on the
All,
As an update, I'm afraid to announce that we will have to delay the process
for some time.
As my previous e-mail states, we had intended to start the final renaming
process in the week commencing 27 May. However, given the scale of the
task, it now is clear that this would interfere with
On 12 May 2013 10:40, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com wrote:
James Forrester, 12/05/2013 19:20:
Sorry for the disruption to everyone's plans. If you have any questions,
please do ask.
Will you still make the lists and send out the notifications so that
people can start planning?
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 4:29 AM, James Forrester
jforres...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Unfortunately, some accounts are currently not unique across all our
wikis, but instead clash with other users who have the same account
name. To make sure that all of these users can use Wikimedia's wikis
in
James answered this in his original email:
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
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
On 30 Apr, 2013, at 4:02 PM, 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?
Rename is still possible, similar to what we have now, but just on a global
level. So
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 7:11 PM, Benjamin Chen bencmqw...@gmail.com wrote:
...
One thing to note is the technical limitation on # of edits. If account has
too many edits, he may not be able to get it renamed further.
...
It just needs to be done server side, The same way it already is.
Global renames will be done by Stewards then, yes?
-Dan
Dan Rosenthal
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 12:17 PM, K. Peachey p858sn...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 7:11 PM, Benjamin Chen bencmqw...@gmail.com
wrote:
...
One thing to note is the technical limitation on # of edits. If
On 30 April 2013 03:29, James Forrester jforres...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Unfortunately, some accounts are currently not unique across all our
wikis, but instead clash with other users who have the same account
name. To make sure that all of these users can use Wikimedia's wikis
in future, we
On 30 April 2013 01:01, Marco Chiesa chiesa.ma...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 4:29 AM, James Forrester
jforres...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Unfortunately, some accounts are currently not unique across all our
wikis, but instead clash with other users who have the same account
name. To
On 30 April 2013 02:56, Dan Rosenthal swatjes...@gmail.com wrote:
Global renames will be done by Stewards then, yes?
Yes.
J.
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James D. Forrester
Product Manager, VisualEditor
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
jforres...@wikimedia.org | @jdforrester
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Hi James, thanks for the links.
Keeping in mind that there will be users that unexpectedly find their
much loved account name changed the next time they try to log in, and
this may be central to their established online wiki identity, is
there a community discussion that we can point to where
Fae,
Though I understand the concern that users will have, the need to
rename a relatively-small number of accounts is a technical
requirement that has been built into our system since SUL was designed
c. 2005; it was switched on in early 2008. This has (sadly) been on
the back-burner for too
Thanks James, personally I'm comforted by your prompt reply.
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
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