As say in the title, pretty much the same problem here, execpt it seems I never linked my mail with the account.
I'd like to recover my main account (YaCoUYaCoU), I guess that the actual password is on my dead laptop.
I'm not familiar at all with this interface (I don't know who I'm supposed tu put in subscribers or even if this is the good place).
Thanks.
Hi @VoodooYacou. Please see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_report_a_bug . Where, on which exact website (full URL)?
Your account shows zero activity and was created yesterday: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth?target=VoodooYacou
Which exact account where is this about, after all?
Hi @Aklapper.
I created this account (VoodooYacou) in order to post here. I can't access to my main account (YaCoUYaCoU).
I asked on #wikipedia-fr@irc.freenode.org , they sent me here.
@VoodooYacou Hello! YaCoUYaCoU does have an email assigned. If you still have access to the email it is assigned to, you can reset your password via https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sp%C3%A9cial:R%C3%A9initialisation_du_mot_de_passe (only filling the username is enough, the system will send you an email to whatever account it is assigned to).
If you no longer have access to the email assigned to this account, we'd need you to somehow prove you are YaCoUYaCoU. I don't see any information that would connect your off-wiki identity with the wiki account – is there a way how you can prove the account is yours?
Let me know if this makes sense.
@Urbanecm it's weird, I use the same email account for almost everything (since ~2000) and it seems it's not linked to the Wiki account. So I don't know which old email address I could have used...
(I reset some old passwords, but I doubt.)
I guess it can't be the same address that the one I just used for create this new account ? (VoodooYacou, I mean.)
I still have contact with some Wikipedia-fr contributors and id it's not enough, I think that Kvaderk du (who was the treasurer of Wikipedia France) can confirm my identity.
I also remember that the YaCoUYaCoU account was "verified" (because I once used a source which was on Facebook, the family of the dead person did communicate this there, not my fault) by a manipulation on IRC.
It was the 06/13/15 but since my contribution page specify "IRC cloak resquest", pretty sure it proves nothing.
Unfortunately, I can't just tell you which address it is assigned to. However, I don't see any recent (last ~24 hours) to reset password for YaCoUYaCoU via the self-service interface – so maybe you just filled incorrect info to the form?
Just in case, I submitted the form with your account's info, so the email address the account is assigned to now definitely has a password reset email. Can you please check your mailbox(es) (+also the spam folder) and let me know?
I guess it can't be the same address that the one I just used for create this new account ? (VoodooYacou, I mean.)
VoodooYacou doesn't have any email assigned. Are you sure you did add some? You can do it via https://fr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sp%C3%A9cial:Changer_courriel if you wish.
I still have contact with some Wikipedia-fr contributors and id it's not enough, I think that Kvaderk du (who was the treasurer of Wikipedia France) can confirm my identity.
If a French Wikipedia functionary can confirm your identity via some difficult-to-spoof mechanism (like a video call), that'd definitely help. But, I really think it should be possible for you to reset the password yourself via the password reset interface, without manually verifying your identity.
It's been several months since I can't access to my account, I tried many times.
100% sure that the mail doesn't arrive in my main mailbox... WAIT, I F5ed my mailbox and when you did it, it worked!
I just tried again and nothing, I don't get it.
But it's no more a problem, thank you a lot!
I try to login and I tell you.