https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39996
--- Comment #38 from Marco Aurelio <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #35) > I'm the one with the "quite unusual problem", in comment 34. If it helps, > there > was one difference in what I was doing on the wikis where my account became > detached and the ones that didn't. For the first renames I did, I went to the > project, edited my preferences to change the language to en, then went to > RENAMEUSER and completed the renames. For the ones that broke, I used a > direct > link over https rather than navigate round the Wiki. For example, I used > https://example.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special: > RenameUser&oldusername=AnOldName&newusername=ANewName&reason=why+not > > I've no idea if this is the cause, but maybe the local account creation > process > isn't being invoked or completed properly if you enter the project via this > route rather than the normal route a user would take. If it helps, I was also renaming accounts when I faced the same problem. Bug 39997 has more info, specially the sixth comment. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
