I just renamed my account on Wikimedia. Can I also rename my phabricator handle here?
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Hi! To answer your question in the task summary: No you cannot. :)
This seems like a support request instead of an enhancement request or bug report. For future reference, please use the Phabricator Help discussion page at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Phabricator/Help
Phabricator admins could in theory rename users, but:
"The old username will no longer be tied to the user, so anything which uses it (like old commit messages) will no longer associate correctly. (And, if you give a user a username which some other user used to have, username lookups will begin returning the wrong user.)
It is generally safe to rename newly created users (and test users and so on), but less safe to rename established users and unsafe to reissue a username.
Users who rely on password authentication will need to reset their password after their username is changed (their username is part of the salt in the password hash)."
Edit in 2020: We do rename user accounts in Phabricator nowadays.
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Is there any progress on this? I mean, can users be renamed without losing their previous actions, like on Wikimedia project?
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Admins can rename Phabricator usernames and we are fine doing this now (2019, compared to 2015). :)
Feel free to bring up requests in a dedicated ticket here under Phabricator or on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Phabricator/Help and mention your current username and your wanted username. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/Help#Creating_your_account for name restrictions.
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It would be really great if this was an option, I changed my username on Wikipedia several years ago but my account here uses my old username despite me being able to log in with my new username
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@Mrjohncummings: ? I don't know what "none of my tasks come with me" means. Feel free to request renaming on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Phabricator/Help or in a dedicated ticket here.
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@Aklapper Ah, ok, I think I see the issue, I assumed that
"The old username will no longer be tied to the user, so anything which uses it (like old commit messages) will no longer associate correctly. (And, if you give a user a username which some other user used to have, username lookups will begin returning the wrong user.)
Meant that my tasks would no longer be associated with my username but I guess this isn't the case
Thanks
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@John_Cummings, yeah, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T96110#4872946 explains that all data associated with the previous username should be transferred to the new username. Is this correct, @Aklapper?
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Could you guys please not reuse a ticket from 2015 for a new request in 2022? I am sure it can be solved (unlike in 2015, that's the good news), but please make this a separate thing. Thank you!
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@BEEDELLROKEJULIANLOCKHART: Please bring up general questions on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Phabricator/Help instead - thanks.