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Wikitech migration to SUL can cause error
A user at en:Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Auto-creation of a local account failed was unable to log in to new wikis because they had an unattached Wikitech account but the error message was unhelpful. It appears from wikitech:Wikitech/SUL-migration#How? that it's a general issue from 1 October 2024 to 30 January 2025, unless something is improved before then. wikitech:Special:Statistics says 37,605 registered users but I don't know how many are affected. I suggest adding this to Help:Unified login#Conflict resolution, and maybe remove it after 30 January 2025 if the issue appears gone then:
Wikitech is migrating to SUL in 2024–25. If Special:CentralAuth shows an unattached Wikitech account then you may get this error message when you try to log in to a wiki where your account does not already exist:
Auto-creation of a local account failed: Cannot create account: The username is already in use. Please pick another name.
The message is made by MediaWiki:Authmanager-authn-autocreate-failed and MediaWiki:Centralauth-account-unattached-exists. You may see it in the language of the wiki. Try merging the Wikitech account at wikitech:Special:MergeAccount to fix the problem.
The suggested fix worked for the user. I quoted the full English error message to help users who search for it. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:17, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
- Attempt for local creation, while having any unattached account, will always fail. I have added the suggestion with minor modification. – Ammarpad (talk) 19:09, 3 October 2024 (UTC)
Global account issue
I have noticed a singular isssue on my global account that is similar to this one occurred last month. In my case I accomplished to merge my wikitech.wikimedia.org account to the global one throughout Special:MergeAccount, but there are 2 more local accounts that I can't merge in any way. It seems that those local accounts were automatically and accidentally created when I navigated those minor wikis even if I was regularly logged in with my global account: I have realized this because there was listed only the new.wiki account as not merged in the MergeAccount special page in the beginning, then I tried to open the mos.wiki home page reported by Killarnee and subsequently it appeared also the mos.wiki account in the MergeAccount special page. How can we fix it? Thanks for your attention. Mess (talk) 20:26, 11 November 2024 (UTC)
- @Mess you are likely affected by the issue mentioned in phab:T378289 / phab:T379490#10307369. The fix should be deployed soon. Johannnes89 (talk) 20:56, 11 November 2024 (UTC)
- @Johannnes89 Thank you for the answer. Meanwhile I've partially fixed the issue: I've successfully merged the mos.wiki account, but the new.wiki one still stands on his own. It looks like that in the former case I can access to the local wiki with my global account and so I can apply the merge locally, while in the latter case I can't either log in with it and thus I can't perform the merge procedure for this reason. Mess (talk) 21:11, 11 November 2024 (UTC)