[17:18:25] bd808: I totally forgot that that account existed! I assume it's left over from the move to "(WMF)" accounts? Or was that just James cleaning up after my sloppy account management? [17:18:43] I was expecting the wikitech account to merge with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Andrewbogott and leave the name-with-space account out of it... [17:21:36] Depending on which account(s) have contributions, we can rename things around to get them all linked up [17:22:03] Historically different accounts on wikitech vs "the rest of the wikis", plus ldap and everything else does result in some confusion like this [17:24:05] I'm pretty sure that I don't care about the outcome -- sorry if this is a result of me being careless with usernames. [17:24:46] You're not unique in this situation :) [17:25:08] So it's most a case of working out which accounts (in any form) you want to keep/use going forward, and arrange stuff to make that happen [17:28:05] Reedy, want me to answer that question here, or on ticket? Unless there's still strong pressure to separate staff account from personal account I'd prefer to just use the Andrewbogott sul account [17:28:50] In most cases, you only need your WMF account if you're doing official stuff (like actions on behalf of the WMF) [17:29:02] for like wikitech/mediawiki, no one really cares [17:29:13] great [17:40:23] andrewbogott: Based on your desired final state I would like to try renaming your legacy Wiktiech account from "Andrew Bogott" to "Andrewbogott". My informed hunch is that this will get you past the "Auto-creation of a local account failed" problem which I believe is caused by the locked SUL account naming collision. [17:41:21] Fine with me! [17:43:56] Is the rename something I do in userspace or something you do in godlike space? [17:44:29] It's not self serve, unless you have the rights (which you might..) [17:44:47] Yeah, you do [17:44:52] andrewbogott: I will do the rename. I have the special page open right now. [17:45:34] thanks! lmk when/what to do [17:46:45] andrewbogott: rename is done -- https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Andrewbogott -- Now you should be able to login with a recovered password and then use https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MergeAccount to complete the SUL attachment. [17:47:46] logging in to wikitech as 'Andrewbogott' it tells me 'This account is globally locked. ' [17:48:08] Did you upset someone? ;) [17:49:24] We can just attach the account server side, and you should be able to login with the password for wikipedia et al [17:49:34] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Andrewbogott is not showing a global lock. I wonder if this is cache stuff from the https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Andrew Bogott which is globally locked? [17:50:22] Reedy: yeah, maybe a maintenance script attachment to the SUL is the next thing to try? [17:50:46] * bd808 is multi-tasking poorly during an APP meeting [17:51:15] * andrewbogott is so, so sorry [17:51:34] CentralAuth account attach for: Andrewbogott [17:51:34] ATTACHING: Andrewbogott@labswiki [17:51:34] [2024-11-12 17:51:23] processed: 1 (9.0/sec); ok: 0 (0.0%); attached: 1 (100.0%); partial: 0 (0.0%); failed: 0 (0.0%); missing: 0 (0.0%); [17:51:34] done. [17:54:48] OK! I can now log in to wikitech with the Andrewbogott SUL creds and see thousands of edits in my history. [17:54:54] w00t! [17:54:56] So I think we're done? [17:55:00] yup [17:55:02] thanks bd808 & Reedy