On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> wrote: > In the last few months I was involved in a few editing workshops for > new users. When we told people to create user accounts, they often > chose usernames based on relatively common people's names, but it > usually didn't happen in wikis in major language like English or > Russian, so their username was accepted, as there were no other user > with the same name on the same wiki. But when they entered a wiki in > another major language, they had to create a new account with a > different name for the obvious reasons. > > How hard would it be to auto-convert to SUL all the accounts with > names that exist only on one wiki, so it would appear like this name > is already taken? This should prevent such problems in the future.
See the prior thread (which I think had no resolution): http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-April/060256.html -Jeremy _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
