Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-03-13/Technology report
Technology report
Bugs, Repairs, and Internal Operational News
Username changes now allowed for up to 20,000 edits
Nichalp, a bureaucrat, announced earlier this week that a recent code change has allowed for renaming of users with up to 20,000 edits. A prior technical limit of 6,800 edits had existed. Nichalp stated that he had learned of the change from viewing the HTML source of the user renaming function. The first three users over this limit to be renamed were Dcoetzee (to Deco), Aranda56 (to Jaranda), and Snowspinner (to Phil Sandifer). All of these were done by bureaucrat Raul654. [1]
Last week in servers
Server-related events, problems, and changes included:
- 7 March — Naconkantari made temporary sysop on the Korean Wikipedia due to The Communism vandal, or an impostor, vandalizing numerous pages.
- 8 March — khaldun routing issues fixed.
- 8 March — Wikimedia mailserver IP address changed to allow DNS changes.
- 8 March — thistle temporarily taken out of service due to lag issues.
- 10 March — Friedrich moved to fundraising-related service.
- 11 March — Fundraising site is back up.
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Nichalp, a bureaucrat, announced earlier this week that a recent code change has allowed for renaming of users with up to 20,000 edits. A prior technical limit of 6,800 edits had existed. Nichalp stated that he had learned of the change from viewing the HTML source of the user renaming function. The first three users over this limit to be renamed were Dcoetzee (to Deco), Aranda56 (to Jaranda), and Snowspinner (to Phil Sandifer). All of these were done by bureaucrat Raul654. [2]