Last modified: 2012-02-25 10:22:34 UTC
First of all, I'm steward and my SUL is active for years. At the moment it is active in more than 400 wmf projects. Today I went to some page on ru.wikibooks.org and uz.wikiquote.org (Special:RenameUser to be precise). Usually I only need to change the settings to my language when I enter a new site where I haven't been before. But this time something went wrong. I was told, that I'm not allowed to call this page, then I mentioned I wasn't logged in. So I tried to login, but I was told, that my password was wrong. On ru.wikibooks.org I was able to request a temporary password, and I was also able to merge this account into my SUL. But on uz.wikiquote.org I was told, that there is no email address attached to this account thus I'm not able to merge this account into my SUL. Two requests: 1. Please try to find out what went wrong (server problem? database problem?) 2. Please add my bugzilla address to this local account that I'm able to get a temporary password. Regards Andy aka. axpde --
For some reason the email the account was incorrectly created: [uzwikiquote]> select * from user where user_name='Axpde' \G *************************** 1. row *************************** user_id: 546 user_name: Axpde user_real_name: user_password: user_newpassword: user_email: user_options: user_touched: user_token: <some hash> user_email_authenticated: NULL user_email_token: NULL user_email_token_expires: NULL user_registration: 20120213183354 user_newpass_time: NULL user_editcount: 0 1 row in set (0.00 sec) I have verified that was a SUL account and manually updated the email address using eval: $ mwscript eval.php uzwikiquote > $u = User::newFromName( 'Axpde' ); > $u->setEmail( <some email> ); > $u->saveSettings(); > exit $ User managed to merge that account
Thanks for helping. I'm just curious what might have happened. This is the third time I had to merge a local account manually into my SUL, but the first time I couldn't request a temporary password! So this might happen again ... :(
It happened again on ru.wikiversity.org (see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34512)
