2012/7/29 Platonides <[email protected]>: > On 29/07/12 17:23, Amir E. Aharoni wrote: >> Hi, >> >> 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. > > I thought it was already that way, that the username would have been > reserved even if it wasn't unified. > The names should be at globalnames and no manual account creation with > that name should be possible. > Can you provide some examples?
http://toolserver.org/~quentinv57/tools/sulinfo.php?username=LaPhilosophe As this page shows, this account existed only in enwiki since 2007. Accounts in hewiki and ptwiki were created a few days ago. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
