Wikiswizell

Your account will be renamed

Hello,

The developer team at Wikimedia is making some changes to how accounts work, as part of our on-going efforts to provide new and better tools for our users like cross-wiki notifications. These changes will mean you have the same account name everywhere. This will let us give you new features that will help you edit and discuss better, and allow more flexible user permissions for tools. One of the side-effects of this is that user accounts will now have to be unique across all 900 Wikimedia wikis. See the announcement for more information.

Unfortunately, your account clashes with another account also called Wikiwell. To make sure that both of you can use all Wikimedia projects in future, we have reserved the name Wikiwell~enwiki that only you will have. If you like it, you don't have to do anything. If you do not like it, you can pick out a different name. If you think you might own all of the accounts with this name and this message is in error, please visit Special:MergeAccount to check and attach all of your accounts to prevent them from being renamed.

Your account will still work as before, and you will be credited for all your edits made so far, but you will have to use the new account name when you log in.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yours,
Keegan Peterzell
Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation

03:43, 20 March 2015 (UTC)

Are we both getting a new account name?

I have six wikiwell edits (en.wikipedia.org) going back to 2006, and the other wikiwell (de.wikipedia.org) has eight starting in 2012. Unless both usernames have to be changed, seems the oldest user would have preference? Let me know how it all works and if there is a way I can keep this username. Thanx, Wikiwell (talk) 16:53, 2 April 2015 (UTC)