Talk:Admin tools development/SUL Audit

Definition of "clash"
What's the definition of "clash"? Did you just mean "share the same username", or does it mean that they wouldn't unify automatically at Special:MergeAccount because they don't share email and/or password (39817). --Nemo 10:59, 12 March 2013 (UTC)


 * The latter. Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 15:09, 12 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Very interesting, it's way worse than I thought... or better, if those are careful users using different passwords for their accounts on different wikis, but I hope they remember them. --Nemo 15:34, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Wrongly unattached accounts
Note that we also have an unknown amount of automatically created accounts that are not attached to any global account: some of the relevant reports are, , , ,. Some of them may be counted as "clashing" because the password, the email or both got lost in the DB. A list could be done by checking, among the local unattached post-2008 accounts, which have a corresponding log entry for autocreation. --Nemo 15:12, 22 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Absolutely. We hope to clean up all of these as part of this process. Jdforrester (WMF) (talk) 15:23, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

Updates?
Can this be updated each month? Just a short summary metric? It would be good to see the progress of unification. 66.31.46.165 07:38, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
 * As the page itself explains, those queries are not trivial to run. Moreover, the engineer who performed them no longer works for the WMF. I agree that notifications should be sent to users as soon as possible and the unification progress should then be monitored regularly for a few weeks/months. --Nemo 07:42, 3 October 2013 (UTC)