Brion Vibber, who may be me, wrote:
Before we go tearing our hair out, we should probably
actually *check* to
see how many duplicate names we've got to deal with.
If the number is quite small, which I expect it is, conflicts could simply
be resolved by (consensually) renaming a few accounts.
Okay, I ran a little script to check over the user tables and spit out
names that are registered on multiple wikis which don't all match in
either e-mail address or password. I haven't yet checked any of the
accounts for activity, nor have I visually checked the e-mail addresses
for signs of similarity, nor their user pages. Certainly there are
plenty on the list that do belong to the same person. :)
False matches (can follow a chain between matching emails and password
hashes but the script didn't catch them): [2]
Den fjättrade ankan (da,de,sv,en)
Luca Masters (da,de,eo,es,fr,nl,pl,sv,en)
Partial matches: [30]
A (de,ja,pl) -- match: de,pl -- out: ja
Abc (pl,sv,en) -- match: sv,en -- out: pl
Alex (de,fr,nl,sv,en) -- match: sv,en -- out: de,fr,nl
Alvaro (meta,da,de,es,fr,nl,pl,sv,en) -- match: meta,de,es,sv,en --
match: nl,pl,da -- out: fr
Aoineko (meta,es,fr,ja) -- match: es,ja -- match: meta,fr
Brion VIBBER
(meta,sep11,cs,da,de,eo,es,fr,ja,ko,ms,nl,pl,ru,tr,zh,sv,en,he,hu,hi,sl)
-- hehe, i let one or two get out of sync :)
Calimero (nl,sv,en) -- match: sv, en -- out: nl
Chd (meta,de,eo,es,fr) -- match: meta,eo,es,fr -- out: de
Dexter (de,sv,en) -- match: sv,en -- out: de
Emma (fr,sv,en) -- match: sv,en -- out: fr
Folken (fr,sv,en) -- match: sv,en -- out: fr
Fono (de,es,pl) -- match: es,pl -- out: de
Hannes (de,sv,en) -- match: sv,en -- out: de
Harald (nl,sv,en) -- match: sv,en -- out: nl
JohnOwens (meta,de,ru) -- match: de,ru -- out: meta
Kils (da,de,es,pl,sv,en) -- match: da,de,pl,sv,en -- out: es
Mm (meta,fr,ru) -- match: meta,fr -- out: ru
Pelle (de,sv,en) -- match: sv,en -- out: de
Sakura (ja,sv,en) -- match: sv,en -- out: ja
Samuel (eo,es,fr,ja,zh) -- match: eo,fr,ja,zh -- out: es
Stefan (de,sv,en) -- match: sv,en -- out: de
Stevertigo (meta,sep11,es,ar) -- match: meta,sep11,es -- out: ar
Taw (meta,de,eo,fr,ja,pl) -- match: meta,de,eo,fr,ja -- out: pl
TeunSpaans (meta,de,nl) -- match: de,nl -- out: meta
Topory (de,es,fr,nl,pl,sv,en) -- match: de,es,fr,nl,sv,en -- out: pl
Tor (pl,sv,en) -- match: sv,en -- out: pl
Unukorno (de,eo,nl) -- all match
Willy (meta,de,es,nl) -- match: meta,es -- out: de,nl
WojPob (meta,de,pl) -- match: de,pl -- out: meta
Youssefsan (meta,de,eo,es,fr,ja,nl,pl,ru) -- match:
meta,de,eo,es,ja,nl,pl,ru -- out: fr
No two can be found to match: [98]
AGiss (meta,fr)
Aaa (de,pl)
Aki (de,ja)
Al (de,fr)
Alberto (es,fr)
Albin (de,fr)
Alexx (de,fr)
Ana (es,pl)
Andres (de,es)
Angel (es,zh)
Anna (es,pl)
Antonio (eo,es)
Arno (meta,fr)
Axel (da,de)
Barbara (es,pl)
Baruch (es,nl)
Basil (meta,de)
Ben (de,fr)
Beyer (da,de)
Boud (fr,pl)
Cezar (eo,pl)
Chris (de,fr)
Chuck Smith (meta,de)
Cicero (de,nl)
Cyril (eo,fr)
Daniel (de,bs)
Dave (de,fr)
Dug (de,pl)
Eddy (eo,es,nl)
Erich Nohe (de,es)
Flo (de,fr)
Flor (de,es)
Frank (de,ja,nl,zh)
Fritz (de,nl)
General Wesc (meta,es)
Geralmor (meta,es)
Hannibal (fr,pl)
Hans (da,de,es)
Iris (de,nl)
James (meta,es)
Jerry (fr,pl)
Jim (meta,de)
Jojo (de,nl)
Joselo (es,fr)
Juan (es,ja)
Jul (meta,fr)
Julian (de,es)
Kale (de,nl)
Kid (de,es)
Kriss (fr,pl)
Laura (es,pl)
Leonardo (de,es)
Leonidas (de,es)
Lila (de,pl)
Lucas (es,nl)
M (pl,ru)
Marc (de,fr,nl)
Marian (de,pl)
Mario (de,es)
Marisa (de,es)
Mars (pl,zh)
Martin (fr,nl)
Max (de,es)
Med (meta,fr)
Miguel (eo,es)
Miroslav Malovec (cs,eo)
Mk (de,ja)
Mrwojo (meta,eo,fr)
Mswake (meta,fr)
Murat (de,tr)
Nabla (de,pl)
Nick (de,nl)
Ok (meta,zh)
Pablo (es,pl)
Paolo (de,es)
Paul (eo,zh)
Peter (de,nl)
Pieter (meta,cs,nl)
Qwerty (fr,nl)
Rafael (eo,es)
Rene (de,es)
Seb (meta,fr)
Sebastian (de,es,fr)
Sergio (de,es)
Shark (de,nl)
Simon (de,zh)
Snow (de,zh)
Solar (pl,zh)
Spade (da,de)
TJ (meta,de)
Tadeusz (da,pl)
Thomas (de,fr)
Toto (de,fr,ja,zh)
Victor (es,nl,ru)
Vladimir (eo,es)
Wolf (de,es)
Woody (fr,nl)
1 (ja,zh)
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)