Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-03-13/Technology report

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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. [1]

This change has been in the code for at least a few months, so it wasn't recent. Obviously no-one discovered it. I think it was done on request of a user on one of the smaller wikis. Rob Church 16:27, 16 March 2006 (UTC)