Changing username

[Walter Vermeir]

There is a page on Meta;
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Changing_username

where users can ask to rename there account to a other name.

It looks like this is not done since of august.

It whould be nice if those users can get there rename.

I have tried to clean out the page. I noticed there are requests from
users have have good reason to ask for a change. But also from users who
have made extreemly few edits or do a request of a name change that does
not make sence, at least to me. Like "OTTo" to "OTTO" or
"Sound::jacking" to "Sound::Jacking".

If the reason, or part of the reason why the rename is not done anymore
because it is a lot of work ruels can be created to reduse the number of
requests.

So that when a good long time editor who used in the beginning a
nickname but now whould like to use his real name can get a renaming done.

[NSK]

Post by Walter Vermeir
where users can ask to rename there account to a other name.

I wonder why somebody would bother to rename his account, since it is so easy
just to open a new account.

Wouldn't it be easier to change the new user registration screen and add a
check "I want to rename my account". Then the user would add the new desired
user name, the new password, the old user name, and the old password. The
system would then authenticate him and change the user name in the data base.

[Christiaan Briggs]

Post by NSK

Post by Walter Vermeir
where users can ask to rename there account to a other name.

I wonder why somebody would bother to rename his account, since it is so easy
just to open a new account.

Contribution history maybe?

Christiaan

[Christiaan Briggs]

Would anyone care to comment on this:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:
Village_pump#Blue_line_through_images_when_viewing_with_Safari_web_brows
er
or: http://snipurl.com/cwqt

Christiaan