On 7/31/05, Anthere <anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
You mean a bureaucrat can actually anytime directly
take any existing
account, move it to another account, and reattribute it to anyone else ?
[...]
Was each project informed on this ?
Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, and Wikinews were informed of it.
Wikiquote and Wikisource don't have mailing lists, and I forgot about
the Commons (sorry). The help pages about changing username were
updated on meta, so hopefully even those not on mailing lists would
have some knowledge about the feature. This is going on the assumption
that members of those lists will translate the information there are
disseminate that within their own language projects.
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2005-July/040905.html
Do you know if some projects
developped rules about such a feature use ?
I'm not aware of any such rules. On the English Wikipedia, it's
currently a judgement call of the few bureaucrats who are doing this
task. Until a problem arises, there isn't much call for a policy,
which is probably why the Steward policies still had the "draft" tag
on them until March of this year. :)
Angela.