Wikitech registration for prior SVN user
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	Dragons_flight
	Feb 24 2015, 11:23 PM

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I was trying to create a wikitech account at [1]:

It says:

If you already had a SVN account https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/author with the same username, ask it to be created manually by sending this information https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53793#c1 to ops-requests@rt.wikimedia.org.

Years ago I had an SVN account [2]: rarohde
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/author/rarohde (Dragons
flight https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Dragons_flight)

I tried entering:

Username: Dragons flight
Email address: rohde@robertrohde.com
Instance shell account name: rarohde

And got the error mentioned at the end of the page, presumably because that
shell name was used long, long ago.

For what it is worth, I am ultimately intending to fix some long standing
bugs in AbuseFilter.

-Robert Rohde
aka Dragons_flight on the various wikis.

[1]
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&action=submitlogin&type=signup

[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/author

SRE

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@Andrew or @RobH can we change that email on the signup page to operations@phab.wm.o? and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T55793#555374.

• chasemp triaged this task as Medium priority.Feb 24 2015, 11:55 PM

@chasemp: You mention changing where such requests are sent. Do I need to do anything else to ensure that this request is seen by the appropriate people? I'm guessing that it is fine here, even if it got started in a suboptimal way, but I just wanted to double check.

Thanks.