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 must be globally unique - therefore it will be withdrawn from bureaucrats' 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 possible for users to ask on Meta for their > account to be renamed further, if they do not like their new user name, once > this takes place.
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Magnus Manske <[email protected]> wrote: > Will the affected users be given a one-time offer to have their accounts > renamed, or are they stuck forever with the "~" ones? > > > On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 5:01 AM, James Forrester > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On 29 April 2013 20:59, Fae <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Thanks James, personally I'm comforted by your prompt reply. >> >> Happy to help. :-) >> >> > 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 established contribution >> > history at this level. >> >> Yes, I'll be personally reviewing the renaming list to make sure we >> can catch any particularly-major issues early. >> >> Yours, >> -- >> James D. Forrester >> Product Manager, VisualEditor >> Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. >> >> [email protected] | @jdforrester >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- David Richfield [[:en:User:Slashme]] +27718539985 _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
