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give homeless sul accounts a new home wiki when their home wiki was closed
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when closing a project, the home wiki value of sul accounts should also be changed to another wiki. There are already many "homeless" users in db.


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Severity: enhancement

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bz22638

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 11:06 PM
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Haven't we only been disabling edits on closed wikis lately compared to actually disabling them so this shouldn't really be a issue?

mathsmart9 wrote:

Actually, it is a problem. I am missing a home wiki; [[m:Special:CentralAuth/MC10|Special:CentralAuth]] and the [http://toolserver.org/~vvv/sulutil.php?user=MC10 SUL utility] both don't give me a home wiki.

(In reply to comment #2)

Actually, it is a problem. I am missing a home wiki;
[[m:Special:CentralAuth/MC10|Special:CentralAuth]] and the
[http://toolserver.org/~vvv/sulutil.php?user=MC10 SUL utility] both don't give
me a home wiki.

enwiki is your home wiki, isn't it?

(In reply to comment #4)

(In reply to comment #2)

Actually, it is a problem. I am missing a home wiki;
[[m:Special:CentralAuth/MC10|Special:CentralAuth]] and the
[http://toolserver.org/~vvv/sulutil.php?user=MC10 SUL utility] both don't give
me a home wiki.

enwiki is your home wiki, isn't it?

MC10 was fixed by deleting and remerging the global account (http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=globalauth&user=J.delanoy&page=User%3AMC10%40global)

mathsmart9 wrote:

Yes, that did work, but it's pretty annoying to do that. Besides, the stewards cannot remerge the global accounts, even after deleting it; the user would have to, and may not do so, allowing other users to claim the user's account name on different wikis. This should still be implemented.

This is exactly what deleting and remerging is for, this affects so few users and has so little effects even on them that it's not worth inventing an ad hoc solution.