Forum:Name Change

Hi

Im wanting to change my username, is there a way to do this. Thanks - Mike Wheeler 11:23, May 27, 2010 (UTC)


 * Not at this time, no. You can always simply create a new account and point your old userpages to your new one. -- 12:04, May 27, 2010 (UTC)


 * By point, Charitwo means put  wikicode on your old user page and   wikicode on your old user talk page. Replace   with your new username, of course. --  Fandyllic  (talk &middot; contr) 2:44 PM PST 27 May 2010


 * Can't this be done automatically clicking move on the old user page ? — TulipVorlax 00:43, May 28, 2010 (UTC)
 * Okay no problem, Thankyou for the advice 77.97.144.3 05:56, May 28, 2010 (UTC)

I think that there is mediawikiwiki:Extension:Renameuser, if that can be adapted to Wikia if needed. Wikia does share one "user" table, right? OpenBSDWiki 21:41, May 30, 2010 (UTC)
 * Users cannot be renamed on Wikia using that extension. Wikia shares one user table, and renaming a user requires that the username in edits and logs also be changed. Thus to rename a user multiple table's need to be tweaked for every single wiki database Wikia is hosting... which is a number in the 10s or 100s of thousands of databases, some of those with large numbers of revisions to go through. ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) (tricks) Jun 1, 2010 @ 17:26 (UTC)