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 will be renaming a number of accounts to have "~” and > the name of their wiki added to the end of their accounts' name. This > change will take place on or around 27 May. For example, a user called > “Example” on the Swedish Wiktionary who will be renamed would become > “Example~svwiktionary”. I was wondering if this would ever finally happen! One ide-effect of centralised renaming: a lot less work for individual projects and a lot less confusion over where and how names can be used/usurped, in which order, etc... -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
