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Add a notice concerning logs and anonymity/privacy on Special:GlobalRenameRequest
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I think that we should add an explanation on the rename request form page concerning anonymity/privacy when user wants to hide an username that contain his real name.
There are such information, but on enwiki, not on every wiki that use CentralAuth / Special:GlobalRenameRequest. See record element of the template CHU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:CHU

Clerk note: As your request appears to be related to a desire for anonymity/privacy, please note that a permanent log record will be created noting your previous name. As such, you might consider simply creating a new account and having your current account renamed to something random and abandoning it. Please advise.

I think that we can add such information in the existent message globalrenamerequest-newname-help : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalRenameRequest?uselang=qqx

I purpose this text :

If your request is related to a desire for anonymity/privacy, please note that a permanent log record will be created noting your previous name. As such, you might consider simply creating a separate  and independent new account[Special:CreateAccount] and having your current account renamed to something random and abandoning it. More information[Link to Mediawiki.org help page].

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Change 359625 had a related patch set uploaded (by Framawiki; owner: Framawiki):
[mediawiki/extensions/CentralAuth@master] Add a notice concerning logs and anonymity/privacy on Special:GlobalRenameRequest

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/359625

The patch submitted needs a manual rebase but the wording so far looks good to me so unless there are any objections --please say so here or in the patch-- I'll +2 it in a few days.

Change 359625 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/CentralAuth@master] Add a privacy note to globalrenamerequest-pretext

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/359625

MarcoAurelio assigned this task to Framawiki.
MarcoAurelio triaged this task as Low priority.
MarcoAurelio removed a project: Patch-For-Review.

Maybe we should create a custom Wikimedia override for this message that further details the practice, privacy, etc. for the WMF sites. Thanks.