https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14862

--- Comment #27 from Trijnstel <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #25)
> Just a few notes on this, in case someone wants to launch in:
> 
> * There probably needs to be a new global rename permission
> * The basic functionality is:
> ** Make sure the target username isn't already a global name in CentralAuth
> ** Make sure the target username is available on all wikis where the user has
> attached accounts
> ** Update globalnames, globaluser, localnames, localuser
> ** For each attached wiki, add a job to do the rename on the local wiki
> * The account(s) will probably need to be locked during this whole process,
> since if the user logs in between the time when the global account is renamed
> and the local wiki is renamed, bad things will happen.

And it might be also useful to give a warning when the username is in use
somewhere (no global account, but unattached accounts on some wikis where the
user doesn't have to be renamed). Just a suggestion.

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