Help:Renaming users
Special:Renameuser special page allow bureaucrats to rename the Username of users. Prior to MediaWiki 1.40 , this was part of Extension:Renameuser .
Usage
edit- Only bureaucrats (unless some other permission configuration is specified) can access the Special:Renameuser page.
- You need to fill three things Current username:, New username: and Reason:.
- Two extra things:
- Move user and talk pages (and their subpages) to new name, this instructs the system to move all user and talk pages to the new username.
- Do not create redirects to the new name, this instructs the system not to create redirects from the old username to the new username.
- Then Submit.
Step-by-step
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Usurping an account
editThis is a process where the username of an account is taken over by another user. Visit User talk:Dmitriy (usurped)~mediawikiwiki to see usurpation in action. To achieve this, the administrator can rename the existing username by adding (usurped) as a qualifer. Then they can successfully take over the existing username.