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Scheduled renaming of two Wikimedia user accounts
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Dear developers,
Hello. It's good monday.

As a result of the discussion in the global renamer mailing list, I am going to rename wikimedia accounts S205643 and S205643bot respectively. The bot account is 1,000,000+ edits. So if the problems occur, please check this out.

The work will be carried out on tuesday. I think it will be started washington D.C. time at 9:00 a.m.

Thank you for your working.

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Thanks for the heads up
Could you post the UTC time as well?

Thanks!

Thanks for the heads up
Could you post the UTC time as well?

Thanks!

Ah! It's 14:00 (2 p.m.) by UTC. Thx!

Marostegui triaged this task as Medium priority.Nov 18 2019, 5:42 AM
Marostegui added a project: SRE.
Marostegui moved this task from Triage to Blocked external/Not db team on the DBA board.

Thank you!

Normally there is no need to tag DBA for such operations, but given how big these two renames are, I am also going to tag SRE and ping a few people from Wikidata given that there is a migration going on.
I cannot recall the last time we did such a big rename.

Can you please only do one at the time, just in case?

Yes, I also remember that this is the first time such a big rename has happened.

You mean, you want me to deal with another account after one account is completed? Of course, there's no problem.

I'll handle the main account at 14 o'clock by UTC. Also, I will handle the bot account after I confirm that the work on the main account has been completed on the queue.

Yes, I also remember that this is the first time such a big rename has happened.

You mean, you want me to deal with another account after one account is completed? Of course, there's no problem.

Yes, so we can avoid having two big ones at the same time. Thank you :)

I'll handle the main account at 14 o'clock by UTC. Also, I will handle the bot account after I confirm that the work on the main account has been completed on the queue.

Excellent! Thanks!

Aklapper renamed this task from Related to scheduled renaming to Scheduled renaming of two Wikimedia user accounts.Nov 18 2019, 11:46 AM

As I said in the global renamers mailing list, the only thing I'm worried about is FlaggedRevs and AbuseFilter tables that might keep the user_text instead of normalized actor_id. Just keeping in these two in mind would be enough for me.

The main account went well. (looks fine) I will handle bot account at 14:20 by UTC.

Thanks for the heads up.

Thanks for caring. Can we proceed now?

Thanks for the heads up.

Thanks for caring. Can we proceed now?

Let's go for it

Excellent - thank you. All good from our side too.

I was so surprised that it was taken care of so quickly. Thank you very much for your attention!!

1997kB assigned this task to Sotiale.